Umatilla, FL 32784 Frost Dates
32784, near Umatilla, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/26, roughly 151 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/09, roughly 346 days after the last spring frost.
Umatilla 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
Umatilla'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Umatilla against the rest of the dataset
Umatilla's growing season runs about 346 days, ranking 2,447 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,037 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32784: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Umatilla's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Umatilla's dates instead of trusting one.