Edgewood, FL 32802 Frost Dates
32802, near Edgewood, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/17, roughly 142 days out. 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 Edgewood 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
Edgewood's growing season runs out in roughly 20 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 Edgewood's last frost
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.
Edgewood against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Edgewood's last and first frost, putting it 1,929 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 847 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32802: local microclimates, on what one yard in Edgewood can differ from the 32802 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Edgewood's frost date answer different questions.