Inverness, FL 34452 Frost Dates
Inverness, FL: when does the frost end?
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.
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 Inverness, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 18 weeks until Inverness's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Inverness'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.
Inverness against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 329 frost-free days, Inverness places 3,106 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,189 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 34452's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Inverness can differ from the 34452 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Inverness's frost date answer different questions.