Fort Meade, FL 33847 Frost Dates
33847, near Fort Meade, FL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/24, roughly 149 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/07, roughly 352 days after the last spring frost.
Fort Meade sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fort Meade's growing season runs out in roughly 19 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 01/24 isn't a guarantee
01/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort Meade against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 352 frost-free days, Fort Meade places 2,288 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,006 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33847: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fort Meade can differ from the 33847 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Fort Meade's frost date answer different questions.