Lake Placid, FL 33852 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lake Placid, FL, ZIP 33852
Around 02/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 182 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/22, about 300 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Lake Placid has about 17 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Lake Placid's last frost
02/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/28 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lake Placid compares
Lake Placid's growing season runs about 300 days, ranking 4,127 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,329 of 1,609.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Lake Placid can differ from the 33852 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Lake Placid's frost date answer different questions.