Brooksville, FL 34605 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Brooksville, FL?
Around 03/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 185 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/05, about 281 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Brooksville in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
About 14 weeks of growing season left in Brooksville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Brooksville's last frost
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Brooksville compares
At roughly 281 frost-free days, Brooksville places 4,795 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,406 of 1,609.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 9b and Brooksville's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Brooksville's dates instead of trusting one.