Mount Dora, FL 34749 Frost Dates
Mount Dora, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/24, roughly 180 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/29, roughly 301 days after the last spring frost.
Mount Dora 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
With roughly 18 weeks until Mount Dora's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
Mount Dora's growing season runs about 301 days, ranking 3,953 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 1,320 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 34749's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Mount Dora's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Mount Dora can differ from the 34749 normal.