McIntosh, FL 32654 Frost Dates
McIntosh, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/01, roughly 185 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/07, roughly 284 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for McIntosh, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 14 weeks until McIntosh's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/01 isn't a guarantee
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
McIntosh against the rest of the dataset
About 284 days separate McIntosh's last and first frost, putting it 4,715 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,393 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32654's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in McIntosh can differ from the 32654 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and McIntosh's frost date answer different questions.