Palm Coast, FL 32164 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.
The actual range around Palm Coast's last frost
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
Palm Coast's growing season runs about 356 days, ranking 2,099 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 916 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32164's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Palm Coast can differ from the 32164 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Palm Coast's frost date answer different questions.