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Haines City, FL 34759 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Haines City, FL, ZIP 34759

Zone 10a

Around 02/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 160 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/04, about 332 frost-free days later.

Haines City 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 Haines City 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.

How much risk comes with planting early here

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 Haines City compares

At roughly 332 frost-free days, Haines City places 2,864 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,116 of 1,609.

Learn more

local microclimates explains what one yard in Haines City can differ from the 34759 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Haines City's frost date answer different questions.