Lady Lake, FL 32162 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Lady Lake, FL?
Around 01/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 151 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/09, about 346 frost-free days later.
Lady Lake 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 19 weeks of growing season left in Lady Lake before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Lady Lake's last frost
01/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/31 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lady Lake compares
At roughly 346 frost-free days, Lady Lake places 2,435 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,025 of 1,609.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Lady Lake's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Lady Lake can differ from the 32162 normal.