Penney Farms, FL 32050 Frost Dates
32050, near Penney Farms, 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.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Penney Farms, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Penney Farms'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.
Why 02/01 isn't a guarantee
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.
Penney Farms against the rest of the dataset
Penney Farms's growing season runs about 330 days, ranking 3,061 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,177 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32050: local microclimates, on what one yard in Penney Farms can differ from the 32050 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Penney Farms's frost date answer different questions.