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Dundee, FL 33806 Frost Dates

33806, near Dundee, FL: the frost window

Zone 10a

Around 02/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 160 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/04, roughly 332 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Dundee in Zone 10a (30 to 35°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

Dundee's growing season runs out in roughly 18 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 Dundee's last frost

02/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Dundee against the rest of the dataset

About 332 days separate Dundee's last and first frost, putting it 2,876 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,124 of 1,609.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 33806: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Dundee's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Dundee's dates instead of trusting one.