Arcadia, FL 34267 Frost Dates
34267, near Arcadia, FL: the frost window
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.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Arcadia, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Arcadia'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 Arcadia's last frost
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 3,225 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,214 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34267: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Arcadia's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Arcadia's dates instead of trusting one.