Orange Park, FL 32003 Frost Dates
32003, near Orange Park, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/01, roughly 157 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/05, roughly 330 days after the last spring frost.
Orange Park 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
Orange Park'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
02/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 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.
Orange Park against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 330 frost-free days, Orange Park places 3,038 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,165 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32003: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Orange Park's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Orange Park's dates instead of trusting one.