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Pinellas Park, FL 33732 Frost Dates

33732, near Pinellas Park, FL: the frost window

Zone 10b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/17, roughly 142 days out. 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 Pinellas Park 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

Pinellas Park's growing season runs out in roughly 20 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

The actual range around Pinellas Park's last frost

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.

Pinellas Park against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 365 frost-free days, Pinellas Park places 842 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 332 of 1,609.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 33732: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10b and Pinellas Park's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pinellas Park's dates instead of trusting one.