Ocean Breeze, FL 34958 Frost Dates
34958, near Ocean Breeze, FL: the frost window
Around 01/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 148 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/18, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ocean Breeze in Zone 10b (35 to 40°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
Ocean Breeze'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 Ocean Breeze's last frost
01/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 02/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ocean Breeze against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Ocean Breeze's last and first frost, putting it 1,991 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 893 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34958: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ocean Breeze's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ocean Breeze can differ from the 34958 normal.