Lake Buena Vista, FL 32836 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.
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
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.
The actual range around Lake Buena Vista's last frost
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 2,562 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,062 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32836'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 32836 normal.