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Winter Park, FL 32792 Frost Dates

Winter Park, FL: when does the frost end?

Zone 10a

Around 01/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 142 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/13, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Winter Park in Zone 10a (30 to 35°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 20 weeks until Winter Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

How much risk comes with planting early here

01/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Winter Park against the rest of the dataset

About 365 days separate Winter Park's last and first frost, putting it 1,089 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 443 of 1,609.

Learn more

Before leaning on 32792's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Winter Park's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Winter Park can differ from the 32792 normal.