Pinellas Park, FL 33743 Frost Dates
33743, near Pinellas Park, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/17, about 142 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/14, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10b (35 to 40°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 Pinellas Park, not a forecast for this year.
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.
Why 01/17 isn't a guarantee
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 849 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 339 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33743: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pinellas Park can differ from the 33743 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10b and Pinellas Park's frost date answer different questions.