McIntosh, FL 32681 Frost Dates
32681, near McIntosh, FL: the frost window
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.
McIntosh 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
McIntosh's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around McIntosh's last frost
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
McIntosh's growing season runs about 284 days, ranking 4,717 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,395 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32681: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and McIntosh's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around McIntosh's dates instead of trusting one.