Baldwin, FL 32234 Frost Dates
32234, near Baldwin, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/28, about 184 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/03, roughly 280 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Baldwin, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Baldwin'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Baldwin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 280 frost-free days, Baldwin places 4,837 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,434 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32234: the frost range, on how to read the range around Baldwin's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Baldwin can differ from the 32234 normal.