Yankeetown, FL 34498 Frost Dates
34498, near Yankeetown, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/03, roughly 159 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/03, roughly 329 days after the last spring frost.
Yankeetown sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
Yankeetown'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 Yankeetown'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.
Yankeetown against the rest of the dataset
Yankeetown's growing season runs about 329 days, ranking 3,135 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,210 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34498: local microclimates, on what one yard in Yankeetown can differ from the 34498 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Yankeetown's frost date answer different questions.