Shalimar, FL 32579 Frost Dates
32579, near Shalimar, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/05, roughly 161 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/28, roughly 321 days after the last spring frost.
Shalimar 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
Shalimar's growing season runs out in roughly 17 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 Shalimar's last frost
02/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Shalimar against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 321 frost-free days, Shalimar places 3,311 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,232 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32579: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Shalimar's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Shalimar's dates instead of trusting one.