Lake Buena Vista, FL 32821 Frost Dates
Lake Buena Vista, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 01/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 153 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/06, roughly 342 days after the last spring frost.
Lake Buena Vista 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
With roughly 19 weeks until Lake Buena Vista'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
01/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Buena Vista against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 342 frost-free days, Lake Buena Vista places 2,560 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,060 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32821's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Buena Vista's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lake Buena Vista can differ from the 32821 normal.