Ponce de Leon, FL 32455 Frost Dates
Ponce de Leon, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/28, roughly 184 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/28, roughly 275 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 Ponce de Leon, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Ponce de Leon's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 02/28 isn't a guarantee
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/03 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.
Ponce de Leon against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 275 frost-free days, Ponce de Leon places 5,130 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,478 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32455's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Ponce de Leon's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Ponce de Leon's dates instead of trusting one.