Howey-in-the-Hills, FL 34797 Frost Dates
34797, near Howey-in-the-Hills, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/26, roughly 151 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/09, roughly 346 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 Howey-in-the-Hills, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Howey-in-the-Hills's growing season runs out in roughly 19 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 346 frost-free days, Howey-in-the-Hills places 2,450 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,040 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34797: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Howey-in-the-Hills's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Howey-in-the-Hills's dates instead of trusting one.