Welaka, FL 32193 Frost Dates
32193, near Welaka, 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.
Welaka 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
Welaka'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.
Welaka against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 284 frost-free days, Welaka places 4,714 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,392 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32193: the frost range, on how to read the range around Welaka's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Welaka can differ from the 32193 normal.