Winter Garden, FL 34777 Frost Dates
34777, near Winter Garden, FL: the frost window
Around 01/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 142 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/13, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Winter Garden in Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
Winter Garden's growing season runs out in roughly 20 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Winter Garden's last frost
01/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Winter Garden against the rest of the dataset
Winter Garden's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 899 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 369 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34777: local microclimates, on what one yard in Winter Garden can differ from the 34777 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Winter Garden's frost date answer different questions.