Howey-in-the-Hills, FL 34737 Frost Dates
Howey-in-the-Hills, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/26, about 151 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/09, roughly 346 days after the last spring frost.
Howey-in-the-Hills sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 19 weeks until Howey-in-the-Hills's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Howey-in-the-Hills's last frost
01/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Howey-in-the-Hills against the rest of the dataset
Howey-in-the-Hills's growing season runs about 346 days, ranking 2,449 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,039 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 34737's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Howey-in-the-Hills can differ from the 34737 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Howey-in-the-Hills's frost date answer different questions.