Orange Park, FL 32030 Frost Dates
Orange Park, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/01, about 157 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/05, roughly 330 days after the last spring frost.
Orange Park sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Orange Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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 3,039 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,166 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32030's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Orange Park's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Orange Park's dates instead of trusting one.