Cutler Bay, FL 33177 Frost Dates
33177, near Cutler Bay, FL: the frost window
Around 01/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 143 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/13, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10b (35 to 40°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Cutler Bay, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cutler Bay'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.
Why 01/18 isn't a guarantee
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.
Cutler Bay against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, Cutler Bay places 914 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 375 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33177: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cutler Bay can differ from the 33177 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10b and Cutler Bay's frost date answer different questions.