Lake Mary, FL 32746 Frost Dates
Lake Mary, FL: when does the frost end?
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.
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 Lake Mary, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 19 weeks until Lake Mary's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lake Mary'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.
Lake Mary against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 352 frost-free days, Lake Mary places 2,286 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,004 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32746's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Lake Mary's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Mary's dates instead of trusting one.