Homestead, FL 33283 Frost Dates
33283, 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.
Zone 11a (40 to 45°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 Homestead, not a forecast for this year.
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
About 365 days separate Homestead's last and first frost, putting it 646 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 211 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33283: 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 33283 normal.