Pinellas Park, FL 33738 Frost Dates
Pinellas Park, 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 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
With roughly 20 weeks until Pinellas Park'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.
Pinellas Park against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Pinellas Park's last and first frost, putting it 845 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 335 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33738's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pinellas Park's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pinellas Park can differ from the 33738 normal.