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High Springs, FL 32655 Frost Dates

Frost dates for High Springs, FL, ZIP 32655

Zone 9a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/13, about 197 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/22, about 255 frost-free days later.

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 High Springs, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 9a around High Springs has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around High Springs's last frost

03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How High Springs compares

About 255 days separate High Springs's last and first frost, putting it 6,918 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,573 of 1,609.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around High Springs's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in High Springs can differ from the 32655 normal.