North Port, FL 33947 Frost Dates
North Port, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 01/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 146 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/14, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts North Port 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
With roughly 20 weeks until North Port's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around North Port's last frost
01/21 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 02/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Port against the rest of the dataset
North Port's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 559 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 160 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33947's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around North Port's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in North Port can differ from the 33947 normal.