Lake Helen, FL 32123 Frost Dates
Lake Helen, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 02/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 173 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/30, roughly 310 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10a (30 to 35°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 Lake Helen, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 18 weeks until Lake Helen'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
02/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Helen against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 310 frost-free days, Lake Helen places 3,576 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,265 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32123's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Lake Helen's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Helen's dates instead of trusting one.