Sebring, FL 33872 Frost Dates
33872, near Sebring, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/28, about 153 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/08, roughly 343 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sebring in Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
Sebring'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.
The actual range around Sebring's last frost
01/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sebring against the rest of the dataset
About 343 days separate Sebring's last and first frost, putting it 2,530 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,043 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33872: local microclimates, on what one yard in Sebring can differ from the 33872 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Sebring's frost date answer different questions.