Mount Dora, FL 34729 Frost Dates
34729, near Mount Dora, FL: the frost window
Around 02/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 180 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/29, roughly 301 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mount Dora in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mount Dora'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.
The actual range around Mount Dora's last frost
02/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mount Dora against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 301 frost-free days, Mount Dora places 3,952 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,319 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34729: local microclimates, on what one yard in Mount Dora can differ from the 34729 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Mount Dora's frost date answer different questions.