Winter Park, FL 32704 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Winter Park, FL, ZIP 32704
Around 01/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 142 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/13, about 365 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Winter Park in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Winter Park has about 20 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 Winter Park's last frost
01/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Winter Park compares
About 365 days separate Winter Park's last and first frost, putting it 1,084 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 438 of 1,609.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Winter Park's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Winter Park's dates instead of trusting one.