Palm Bay, FL 32908 Frost Dates
Palm Bay, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/20, about 145 days from today. 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 Palm Bay 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
With roughly 20 weeks until Palm Bay's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Palm Bay's last frost
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.
Palm Bay against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Palm Bay places 402 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 106 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32908's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Palm Bay can differ from the 32908 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Palm Bay's frost date answer different questions.