Orange City, FL 32763 Frost Dates
32763, near Orange City, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/17, about 173 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/30, roughly 310 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 Orange City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Orange City'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.
Why 02/17 isn't a guarantee
02/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Orange City against the rest of the dataset
About 310 days separate Orange City's last and first frost, putting it 3,568 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,259 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32763: local microclimates, on what one yard in Orange City can differ from the 32763 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Orange City's frost date answer different questions.