Belleair Bluffs, FL 33770 Frost Dates
Belleair Bluffs, 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 Belleair Bluffs 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
With roughly 20 weeks until Belleair Bluffs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Belleair Bluffs'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.
Belleair Bluffs against the rest of the dataset
Belleair Bluffs's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,944 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 859 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33770's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Belleair Bluffs's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Belleair Bluffs's dates instead of trusting one.