Kissimmee, FL 33848 Frost Dates
33848, near Kissimmee, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/28, about 153 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/06, roughly 342 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Kissimmee in Zone 10a (30 to 35°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
Kissimmee's growing season runs out in roughly 19 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 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.
Kissimmee against the rest of the dataset
Kissimmee's growing season runs about 342 days, ranking 2,544 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,050 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33848: the frost range, on how to read the range around Kissimmee's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Kissimmee can differ from the 33848 normal.