Homestead, FL 33247 Frost Dates
33247, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Homestead in Zone 11a (40 to 45°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
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.
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 637 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 202 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33247: the frost range, on how to read the range around Homestead's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Homestead can differ from the 33247 normal.