Brooksville, FL 34613 Frost Dates
34613, near Brooksville, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/05, about 161 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/01, roughly 322 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Brooksville'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 Brooksville's last frost
02/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brooksville against the rest of the dataset
Brooksville's growing season runs about 322 days, ranking 3,281 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,220 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34613: local microclimates, on what one yard in Brooksville can differ from the 34613 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Brooksville's frost date answer different questions.