Pensacola, FL 32522 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pensacola, FL, ZIP 32522
Around 02/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 170 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/09, about 301 frost-free days later.
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 Pensacola, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Pensacola has about 15 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.
The actual range around Pensacola's last frost
02/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pensacola compares
At roughly 301 frost-free days, Pensacola places 3,925 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,300 of 1,609.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Pensacola's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Pensacola's dates instead of trusting one.