Plant City, FL 33564 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Plant City, FL, ZIP 33564
Around 01/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 149 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 01/07, about 352 frost-free days later.
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 Plant City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Plant City has about 19 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Plant City compares
At roughly 352 frost-free days, Plant City places 2,270 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 992 of 1,609.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Plant City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Plant City can differ from the 33564 normal.