Orange Park, FL 32258 Frost Dates
Orange Park, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/01, about 157 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/05, roughly 330 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 Orange Park, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 19 weeks until Orange Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 02/01 isn't a guarantee
02/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 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.
Orange Park against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 330 frost-free days, Orange Park places 3,048 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,175 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32258's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Orange Park can differ from the 32258 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Orange Park's frost date answer different questions.