Pensacola, FL 32505 Frost Dates
Pensacola, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/14, roughly 170 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/09, roughly 301 days after the last spring frost.
Pensacola sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 15 weeks until Pensacola's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 02/14 isn't a guarantee
02/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pensacola against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 301 frost-free days, Pensacola places 3,918 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,293 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32505's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pensacola can differ from the 32505 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Pensacola's frost date answer different questions.