Lake Placid, FL 33826 Frost Dates
Lake Placid, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/26, roughly 182 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/22, roughly 300 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lake Placid in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 17 weeks until Lake Placid's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 02/26 isn't a guarantee
02/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Placid against the rest of the dataset
About 300 days separate Lake Placid's last and first frost, putting it 4,126 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,328 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33826's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Lake Placid's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Placid's dates instead of trusting one.