Pensacola, FL 32521 Frost Dates
32521, near Pensacola, FL: the frost window
Around 02/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 170 days away. 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
Pensacola's growing season runs out in roughly 15 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Pensacola's last frost
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
Pensacola's growing season runs about 301 days, ranking 3,924 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,299 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32521: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Pensacola's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pensacola's dates instead of trusting one.