Worthington Springs, FL 32697 Frost Dates
32697, near Worthington Springs, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/13, about 197 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 255 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Worthington Springs in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Worthington Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
03/13 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.
Worthington Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 255 days separate Worthington Springs's last and first frost, putting it 6,966 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,579 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32697: the frost range, on how to read the range around Worthington Springs's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Worthington Springs can differ from the 32697 normal.