Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830 Frost Dates
32830, near Lake Buena Vista, FL: the frost window
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.
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 Lake Buena Vista, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lake Buena Vista's growing season runs out in roughly 19 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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
Lake Buena Vista's growing season runs about 342 days, ranking 2,561 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,061 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32830: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Lake Buena Vista's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lake Buena Vista's dates instead of trusting one.