Palm Coast, FL 32137 Frost Dates
Palm Coast, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 01/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 149 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/11, roughly 356 days after the last spring frost.
Palm Coast 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 19 weeks until Palm Coast'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
01/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 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.
Palm Coast against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 356 frost-free days, Palm Coast places 2,098 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 915 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32137's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Palm Coast's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Palm Coast's dates instead of trusting one.