Highland Park, FL 33898 Frost Dates
33898, near Highland Park, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/04, about 160 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/04, roughly 332 days after the last spring frost.
Highland Park 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
Highland Park's growing season runs out in roughly 18 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 02/04 isn't a guarantee
02/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Highland Park against the rest of the dataset
About 332 days separate Highland Park's last and first frost, putting it 2,907 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,142 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33898: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Highland Park's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Highland Park's dates instead of trusting one.