Mount Dora, FL 32756 Frost Dates
32756, near Mount Dora, FL: the frost window
Around 02/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 180 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/29, roughly 301 days after the last spring frost.
Mount Dora sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
Mount Dora's growing season runs out in roughly 18 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 Mount Dora's last frost
02/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mount Dora against the rest of the dataset
About 301 days separate Mount Dora's last and first frost, putting it 3,947 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,314 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32756: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mount Dora's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mount Dora can differ from the 32756 normal.