Temple Terrace, FL 33647 Frost Dates
Temple Terrace, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/31, about 156 days from today. 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 Temple Terrace, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 19 weeks until Temple Terrace's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Temple Terrace'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.
Temple Terrace against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 336 frost-free days, Temple Terrace places 2,715 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,084 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33647's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Temple Terrace's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Temple Terrace can differ from the 33647 normal.