Brooksville, FL 34609 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.
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 Brooksville, not a forecast for this year.
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 4,796 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,407 of 1,609.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Brooksville's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Brooksville can differ from the 34609 normal.