LaBelle, FL 33918 Frost Dates
LaBelle, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/02, roughly 158 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/08, roughly 339 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10b (35 to 40°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for LaBelle, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 19 weeks until LaBelle's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
LaBelle against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 339 frost-free days, LaBelle places 2,630 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 1,075 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33918's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10b and LaBelle's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around LaBelle's dates instead of trusting one.