Milton, FL 32530 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Milton, FL, ZIP 32530
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/28, roughly 184 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/27, about 276 frost-free days later.
Milton 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Milton has about 13 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
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Milton compares
At roughly 276 frost-free days, Milton places 5,078 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,468 of 1,609.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Milton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Milton's dates instead of trusting one.