Port Orange, FL 32116 Frost Dates
32116, near Port Orange, FL: the frost window
Around 01/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 155 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/08, roughly 340 days after the last spring frost.
Port Orange sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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
Port Orange'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
01/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 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.
Port Orange against the rest of the dataset
Port Orange's growing season runs about 340 days, ranking 2,616 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,065 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32116: the frost range, on how to read the range around Port Orange's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Port Orange can differ from the 32116 normal.