FrostDateCheck

Sebring, FL 33876 Frost Dates

33876, near Sebring, FL: the frost window

Zone 10a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/28, roughly 153 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/08, roughly 343 days after the last spring frost.

Sebring 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

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

At roughly 343 frost-free days, Sebring places 2,532 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,045 of 1,609.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 33876: the frost range, on how to read the range around Sebring's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Sebring can differ from the 33876 normal.