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St. Cloud, FL 34745 Frost Dates

Frost dates for St. Cloud, FL, ZIP 34745

Zone 10a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/04, about 160 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/04, about 332 frost-free days later.

St. Cloud sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 10a around St. Cloud has about 18 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 St. Cloud's last frost

02/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How St. Cloud compares

At roughly 332 frost-free days, St. Cloud places 2,862 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,114 of 1,609.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and St. Cloud's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around St. Cloud's dates instead of trusting one.