Fort Myers Beach, FL 33908 Frost Dates
33908, near Fort Myers Beach, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/16, about 141 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/13, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fort Myers Beach in Zone 10b (35 to 40°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
Fort Myers Beach'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/16 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 02/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort Myers Beach against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Fort Myers Beach's last and first frost, putting it 1,875 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 817 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 33908: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10b and Fort Myers Beach's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fort Myers Beach's dates instead of trusting one.