St. Cloud, FL 34771 Frost Dates
34771, near St. Cloud, FL: the frost window
Around 01/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 150 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/10, roughly 355 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts St. Cloud in Zone 10a (30 to 35°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
St. Cloud's growing season runs out in roughly 19 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 01/25 isn't a guarantee
01/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
St. Cloud against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 355 frost-free days, St. Cloud places 2,133 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 936 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34771: local microclimates, on what one yard in St. Cloud can differ from the 34771 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and St. Cloud's frost date answer different questions.