New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168 Frost Dates
32168, near New Smyrna Beach, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/28, about 153 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/09, roughly 365 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 New Smyrna Beach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
New Smyrna Beach'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 New Smyrna Beach's last frost
01/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New Smyrna Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, New Smyrna Beach places 1,027 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 414 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32168: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and New Smyrna Beach's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around New Smyrna Beach's dates instead of trusting one.