Eagle Lake, FL 33880 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Eagle Lake, FL, ZIP 33880
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/15, about 140 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/10, about 365 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 Eagle Lake, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 10a around Eagle Lake has about 19 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 Eagle Lake's last frost
01/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Eagle Lake compares
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Eagle Lake places 1,867 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 810 of 1,609.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Eagle Lake can differ from the 33880 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Eagle Lake's frost date answer different questions.