Ocala, FL 34475 Frost Dates
34475, near Ocala, FL: the frost window
Around 03/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 185 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/07, roughly 284 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Ocala, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ocala's growing season runs out in roughly 14 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 Ocala's last frost
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ocala against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 284 frost-free days, Ocala places 4,665 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,365 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34475: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ocala can differ from the 34475 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Ocala's frost date answer different questions.