Horseshoe Beach, FL 32648 Frost Dates
Horseshoe Beach, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/06, about 190 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/26, roughly 263 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Horseshoe Beach in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Horseshoe Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Horseshoe Beach's last frost
03/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Horseshoe Beach against the rest of the dataset
Horseshoe Beach's growing season runs about 263 days, ranking 6,153 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,532 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32648's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Horseshoe Beach's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Horseshoe Beach's dates instead of trusting one.