Brooksville, FL 34610 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Brooksville, FL, ZIP 34610
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
Zone 9b around Brooksville has about 14 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
Why 03/01 isn't a guarantee
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 4,797 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,408 of 1,609.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Brooksville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Brooksville's dates instead of trusting one.