Lake Placid, FL 33862 Frost Dates
Lake Placid, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/26, about 182 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/22, roughly 300 days after the last spring frost.
Lake Placid 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 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.
The actual range around Lake Placid's last frost
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
Lake Placid's growing season runs about 300 days, ranking 4,129 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,331 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33862's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Placid's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lake Placid can differ from the 33862 normal.