Pomona Park, FL 32157 Frost Dates
32157, near Pomona Park, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/01, roughly 185 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/07, roughly 284 days after the last spring frost.
Pomona Park 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
Pomona Park's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/01 isn't a guarantee
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pomona Park against the rest of the dataset
About 284 days separate Pomona Park's last and first frost, putting it 4,710 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,388 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32157: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pomona Park can differ from the 32157 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Pomona Park's frost date answer different questions.