Cocoa, FL 32926 Frost Dates
32926, near Cocoa, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/29, roughly 154 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/16, roughly 353 days after the last spring frost.
Cocoa 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
Cocoa'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
01/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 02/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cocoa against the rest of the dataset
Cocoa's growing season runs about 353 days, ranking 2,236 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 970 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32926: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Cocoa's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cocoa's dates instead of trusting one.