Winter Park, FL 32897 Frost Dates
32897, near Winter Park, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/17, about 142 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/13, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Winter Park 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
Winter Park's growing season runs out in roughly 20 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
01/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Winter Park against the rest of the dataset
Winter Park's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,114 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 468 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32897: local microclimates, on what one yard in Winter Park can differ from the 32897 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Winter Park's frost date answer different questions.