West Melbourne, FL 32906 Frost Dates
32906, near West Melbourne, FL: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts West Melbourne in Zone 10a (30 to 35°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
West Melbourne'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
01/20 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.
West Melbourne against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, West Melbourne places 1,070 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 436 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32906: local microclimates, on what one yard in West Melbourne can differ from the 32906 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and West Melbourne's frost date answer different questions.