Sanford, FL 32773 Frost Dates
32773, near Sanford, FL: the frost window
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.
Sanford 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
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
About 352 days separate Sanford's last and first frost, putting it 2,261 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 986 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32773: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b 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.