Rockledge, FL 32936 Frost Dates
32936, near Rockledge, 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.
Rockledge 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
Rockledge'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.
The actual range around Rockledge'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.
Rockledge against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Rockledge's last and first frost, putting it 1,066 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 432 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 32936: the frost range, on how to read the range around Rockledge's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Rockledge can differ from the 32936 normal.