Ocoee, FL 32818 Frost Dates
32818, near Ocoee, FL: the frost window
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.
Ocoee sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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
Ocoee'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.
Ocoee against the rest of the dataset
Ocoee's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 878 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 356 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32818: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Ocoee's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Ocoee's dates instead of trusting one.