Highland Park, FL 33859 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Highland Park, FL?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/04, roughly 160 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/04, about 332 frost-free days later.
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 Highland Park, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 18 weeks of growing season left in Highland Park before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Highland Park's last frost
02/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Highland Park compares
Highland Park's growing season runs about 332 days, ranking 2,906 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,141 of 1,609.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Highland Park's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Highland Park can differ from the 33859 normal.