Homestead, FL 33238 Frost Dates
Homestead, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/18, roughly 143 days out. 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
With roughly 20 weeks until Homestead's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 632 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 197 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33238's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 11a and Homestead's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Homestead's dates instead of trusting one.