Palatka, FL 32145 Frost Dates
32145, near Palatka, FL: the frost window
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.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Palatka, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Palatka'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
01/24 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.
Palatka against the rest of the dataset
About 356 days separate Palatka's last and first frost, putting it 2,115 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 918 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32145: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Palatka's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Palatka's dates instead of trusting one.