Orlando, FL 32832 Frost Dates
32832, near Orlando, FL: the frost window
Around 01/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 150 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/10, roughly 355 days after the last spring frost.
Orlando 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
Orlando'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.
Why 01/25 isn't a guarantee
01/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Orlando against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 355 frost-free days, Orlando places 2,127 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 930 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32832: the frost range, on how to read the range around Orlando's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Orlando can differ from the 32832 normal.