Estero, FL 33928 Frost Dates
Estero, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 01/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 142 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/16, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Estero 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
With roughly 20 weeks until Estero's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Estero's last frost
01/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 02/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Estero against the rest of the dataset
Estero's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 986 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 405 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33928's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Estero's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Estero's dates instead of trusting one.