Arcadia, FL 34265 Frost Dates
Arcadia, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 02/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 163 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/04, roughly 324 days after the last spring frost.
Arcadia 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
With roughly 18 weeks until Arcadia's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Arcadia against the rest of the dataset
Arcadia's growing season runs about 324 days, ranking 3,223 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,212 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 34265's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Arcadia's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Arcadia's dates instead of trusting one.