North Port, FL 33954 Frost Dates
North Port, FL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/21, roughly 146 days out. 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 10a (30 to 35°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
At roughly 365 frost-free days, North Port places 562 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 163 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33954's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and North Port's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around North Port's dates instead of trusting one.