Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Fort Walton Beach, FL, ZIP 32547
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/05, roughly 161 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/28, about 321 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 Fort Walton Beach, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Fort Walton Beach has about 17 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 Fort Walton Beach's last frost
02/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/04 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Fort Walton Beach compares
About 321 days separate Fort Walton Beach's last and first frost, putting it 3,290 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,225 of 1,609.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Fort Walton Beach can differ from the 32547 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Fort Walton Beach's frost date answer different questions.