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Winter Park, FL 32869 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Winter Park, FL, ZIP 32869

Zone 10a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/17, about 142 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/13, about 365 frost-free days later.

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 Winter Park, not a forecast for this year.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 10a around Winter Park has about 20 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Winter Park's last frost

01/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Winter Park compares

Winter Park's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,107 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 461 of 1,609.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Winter Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Winter Park can differ from the 32869 normal.