Orange Park, FL 32257 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Orange Park, FL?
Around 02/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 157 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/05, about 330 frost-free days later.
Orange Park 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 19 weeks of growing season left in Orange Park before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Orange Park's last frost
02/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/03 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/31 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Orange Park compares
At roughly 330 frost-free days, Orange Park places 3,047 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,174 of 1,609.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Orange Park's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Orange Park can differ from the 32257 normal.