Minneola, FL 34715 Frost Dates
34715, near Minneola, FL: the frost window
Around 01/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 151 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/09, roughly 346 days after the last spring frost.
Minneola 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
Minneola's growing season runs out in roughly 19 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Minneola's last frost
01/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Minneola against the rest of the dataset
Minneola's growing season runs about 346 days, ranking 2,432 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,022 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34715: the frost range, on how to read the range around Minneola's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Minneola can differ from the 34715 normal.