Plant City, FL 33596 Frost Dates
Plant City, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/20, roughly 145 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/12, roughly 365 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 Plant City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 20 weeks until Plant City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Plant City's last frost
01/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/10 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 365 days, ranking 955 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 388 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33596's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Plant City's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Plant City can differ from the 33596 normal.