Lakeland, FL 33809 Frost Dates
Lakeland, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/15, roughly 140 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/10, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Lakeland sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
With roughly 19 weeks until Lakeland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lakeland's last frost
01/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/07 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.
Lakeland against the rest of the dataset
Lakeland's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 425 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 112 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33809's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lakeland can differ from the 33809 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Lakeland's frost date answer different questions.