Inverness, FL 34450 Frost Dates
34450, near Inverness, FL: the frost window
Around 02/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 159 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/03, roughly 329 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Inverness in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 329 frost-free days, Inverness places 3,104 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,187 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34450: the frost range, on how to read the range around Inverness's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Inverness can differ from the 34450 normal.