Palm Bay, FL 32909 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Palm Bay, FL?
Around 01/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 141 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/13, about 365 frost-free days later.
Palm Bay 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 20 weeks of growing season left in Palm Bay before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Palm Bay's last frost
01/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Palm Bay compares
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Palm Bay places 403 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 107 of 1,609.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 10a and Palm Bay's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Palm Bay's dates instead of trusting one.