Leesburg, FL 34762 Frost Dates
Leesburg, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/26, roughly 151 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/09, roughly 346 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Leesburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 19 weeks until Leesburg'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
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.
Leesburg against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 346 frost-free days, Leesburg places 2,424 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,016 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 34762's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Leesburg's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Leesburg can differ from the 34762 normal.