Milton, FL 32562 Frost Dates
32562, near Milton, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/28, about 184 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 276 days after the last spring frost.
Milton sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
Milton's growing season runs out in roughly 13 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 Milton's last frost
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Milton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 276 frost-free days, Milton places 5,079 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,469 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32562: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Milton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Milton's dates instead of trusting one.