Orange Park, FL 32259 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Orange Park, FL, ZIP 32259
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/01, about 157 days from today. 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
Zone 9b around Orange Park has about 19 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 3,049 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,176 of 1,609.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Orange Park's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Orange Park's dates instead of trusting one.