Homestead, FL 33197 Frost Dates
33197, near Homestead, 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.
Homestead sits in USDA Zone 11a (40 to 45°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.
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.
Homestead against the rest of the dataset
Homestead's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 628 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 193 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33197: local microclimates, on what one yard in Homestead can differ from the 33197 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 11a and Homestead's frost date answer different questions.