Sanford, FL 32719 Frost Dates
32719, near Sanford, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/24, about 149 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/09, roughly 352 days after the last spring frost.
Sanford sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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
Sanford's growing season runs out in roughly 19 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 Sanford's last frost
01/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sanford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 352 frost-free days, Sanford places 2,256 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 981 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32719: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Sanford's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Sanford's dates instead of trusting one.