St. Augustine, FL 32095 Frost Dates
When can you plant in St. Augustine, FL?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/01, roughly 157 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/05, about 334 frost-free days later.
St. Augustine 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 19 weeks of growing season left in St. Augustine before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around St. Augustine's last frost
02/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/03 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/31 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How St. Augustine compares
At roughly 334 frost-free days, St. Augustine places 2,787 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,106 of 1,609.
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