FrostDateCheck

Grant-Valkaria, FL 32941 Frost Dates

Grant-Valkaria, FL: when does the frost end?

Zone 10a

Around 01/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 141 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/13, 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 Grant-Valkaria, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 20 weeks until Grant-Valkaria's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Grant-Valkaria's last frost

01/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Grant-Valkaria against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 365 frost-free days, Grant-Valkaria places 1,858 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 805 of 1,609.

Learn more

Before leaning on 32941's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Grant-Valkaria's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Grant-Valkaria can differ from the 32941 normal.