Center Hill, FL 33514 Frost Dates
33514, near Center Hill, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/05, roughly 281 days after the last spring frost.
Center Hill sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
Center Hill'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
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Center Hill against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 281 frost-free days, Center Hill places 4,814 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,420 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33514: local microclimates, on what one yard in Center Hill can differ from the 33514 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Center Hill's frost date answer different questions.