Kenneth City, FL 33709 Frost Dates
Kenneth City, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 01/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 142 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/14, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Kenneth City in Zone 10b (35 to 40°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 20 weeks until Kenneth 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
01/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 02/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kenneth City against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Kenneth City's last and first frost, putting it 1,892 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 828 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33709's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10b and Kenneth City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Kenneth City's dates instead of trusting one.