Melbourne Village, FL 32901 Frost Dates
Melbourne Village, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/20, roughly 145 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/12, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Melbourne Village 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
With roughly 20 weeks until Melbourne Village's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/14 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.
Melbourne Village against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Melbourne Village places 1,979 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 882 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32901's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Melbourne Village's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Melbourne Village's dates instead of trusting one.