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Dundee, FL 33877 Frost Dates

33877, near Dundee, FL: the frost window

Zone 10a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/04, about 160 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/04, roughly 332 days after the last spring frost.

Dundee sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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

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.

Why 02/04 isn't a guarantee

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

At roughly 332 frost-free days, Dundee places 2,884 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,132 of 1,609.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 33877: 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.