Homestead, FL 33092 Frost Dates
33092, near Homestead, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/18, about 143 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/13, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Homestead sits in USDA Zone 10b (35 to 40°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Homestead'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 Homestead's last frost
01/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/01 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.
Homestead against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Homestead places 619 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 184 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33092: local microclimates, on what one yard in Homestead can differ from the 33092 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10b and Homestead's frost date answer different questions.