Otter Creek, FL 32683 Frost Dates
32683, near Otter Creek, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/06, roughly 190 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/26, roughly 263 days after the last spring frost.
Otter Creek 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
Otter Creek's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Otter Creek against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 263 frost-free days, Otter Creek places 6,158 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,534 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32683: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Otter Creek's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Otter Creek's dates instead of trusting one.