Pinellas Park, FL 33769 Frost Dates
33769, near Pinellas Park, FL: the frost window
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 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
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
Pinellas Park's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 857 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 347 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33769: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pinellas Park can differ from the 33769 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Pinellas Park's frost date answer different questions.