Williston, FL 32696 Frost Dates
32696, near Williston, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/04, roughly 188 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/04, roughly 274 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 Williston, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Williston'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Williston against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 274 frost-free days, Williston places 5,162 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,486 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32696: local microclimates, on what one yard in Williston can differ from the 32696 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Williston's frost date answer different questions.