Clearwater, FL 33755 Frost Dates
33755, near Clearwater, FL: the frost window
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 Clearwater in Zone 10a (30 to 35°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
Clearwater'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 Clearwater'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.
Clearwater against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Clearwater's last and first frost, putting it 442 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 119 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33755: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Clearwater's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Clearwater's dates instead of trusting one.