La Crosse, FL 32658 Frost Dates
La Crosse, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/13, roughly 197 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 255 days after the last spring frost.
La Crosse sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until La Crosse's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around La Crosse's last frost
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
La Crosse against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 255 frost-free days, La Crosse places 6,969 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,580 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32658's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and La Crosse's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around La Crosse's dates instead of trusting one.