LaBelle, FL 33936 Frost Dates
LaBelle, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/17, about 142 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/16, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
LaBelle 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 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
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.
LaBelle against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate LaBelle's last and first frost, putting it 1,869 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 812 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33936's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a 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.