Mascotte, FL 34736 Frost Dates
34736, near Mascotte, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/05, roughly 281 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mascotte in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mascotte's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/02 isn't a guarantee
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mascotte against the rest of the dataset
About 281 days separate Mascotte's last and first frost, putting it 4,798 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,409 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34736: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mascotte's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mascotte can differ from the 34736 normal.