St. Lucie Village, FL 34951 Frost Dates
St. Lucie Village, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 01/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 149 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/14, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts St. Lucie Village 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
With roughly 20 weeks until St. Lucie Village's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around St. Lucie Village's last frost
01/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 02/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
St. Lucie Village against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, St. Lucie Village places 1,983 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 886 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 34951's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around St. Lucie Village's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in St. Lucie Village can differ from the 34951 normal.