Palm Shores, FL 32940 Frost Dates
Palm Shores, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 01/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 145 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/12, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10a (30 to 35°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Palm Shores, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 20 weeks until Palm Shores's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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.
Palm Shores against the rest of the dataset
Palm Shores's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,967 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 874 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 32940's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Palm Shores's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Palm Shores can differ from the 32940 normal.