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Oviedo, FL 32732 Frost Dates

32732, near Oviedo, FL: the frost window

Zone 9b

Around 01/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 149 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/09, roughly 352 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Oviedo, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Oviedo'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.

Why 01/24 isn't a guarantee

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.

Oviedo against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 352 frost-free days, Oviedo places 2,273 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 995 of 1,609.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 32732: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Oviedo's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Oviedo's dates instead of trusting one.