Plant City, FL 33567 Frost Dates
Plant City, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 01/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 149 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/07, roughly 352 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Plant City in Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
With roughly 19 weeks until Plant City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Plant City against the rest of the dataset
Plant City's growing season runs about 352 days, ranking 2,272 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 994 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33567's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Plant City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Plant City's dates instead of trusting one.