Bowling Green, FL 33834 Frost Dates
33834, near Bowling Green, FL: the frost window
Around 02/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 160 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/08, roughly 332 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bowling Green in Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
Bowling Green's growing season runs out in roughly 19 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
02/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bowling Green against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 332 frost-free days, Bowling Green places 2,901 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,136 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33834: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bowling Green can differ from the 33834 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Bowling Green's frost date answer different questions.