Inverness, FL 34436 Frost Dates
34436, near Inverness, 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.
Inverness 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
Inverness'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 02/03 isn't a guarantee
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.
Inverness against the rest of the dataset
Inverness's growing season runs about 329 days, ranking 3,102 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,185 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34436: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Inverness's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Inverness's dates instead of trusting one.