Lady Lake, FL 32163 Frost Dates
32163, near Lady Lake, FL: the frost window
Around 01/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 151 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/09, roughly 346 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lady Lake in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lady Lake'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.
The actual range around Lady Lake's last frost
01/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 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.
Lady Lake against the rest of the dataset
Lady Lake's growing season runs about 346 days, ranking 2,436 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,026 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32163: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lady Lake can differ from the 32163 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Lady Lake's frost date answer different questions.