Zephyrhills, FL 33542 Frost Dates
Zephyrhills, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/31, roughly 156 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/08, roughly 336 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Zephyrhills, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 19 weeks until Zephyrhills's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Zephyrhills's last frost
01/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 02/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Zephyrhills against the rest of the dataset
About 336 days separate Zephyrhills's last and first frost, putting it 2,720 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,089 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33542's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Zephyrhills's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Zephyrhills can differ from the 33542 normal.