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Eatonville, FL 32810 Frost Dates

32810, near Eatonville, FL: the frost window

Zone 10a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/17, about 142 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/13, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 10a (30 to 35°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 Eatonville, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Eatonville'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.

Why 01/17 isn't a guarantee

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.

Eatonville against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 365 frost-free days, Eatonville places 1,942 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 857 of 1,609.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 32810: local microclimates, on what one yard in Eatonville can differ from the 32810 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Eatonville's frost date answer different questions.