Homestead, FL 33265 Frost Dates
33265, 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.
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
About 365 days separate Homestead's last and first frost, putting it 642 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 207 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33265: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 11a and Homestead's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Homestead's dates instead of trusting one.