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Edgewood, FL 32811 Frost Dates

32811, near Edgewood, FL: the frost window

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 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

At roughly 365 frost-free days, Edgewood places 1,932 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 850 of 1,609.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 32811: local microclimates, on what one yard in Edgewood can differ from the 32811 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Edgewood's frost date answer different questions.