Dunnellon, FL 34432 Frost Dates
34432, near Dunnellon, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/03, about 159 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/03, roughly 329 days after the last spring frost.
Dunnellon sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Dunnellon'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 Dunnellon's last frost
02/03 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 03/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dunnellon against the rest of the dataset
About 329 days separate Dunnellon's last and first frost, putting it 3,122 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,205 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34432: the frost range, on how to read the range around Dunnellon's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Dunnellon can differ from the 34432 normal.