LaBelle, FL 33972 Frost Dates
LaBelle, 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.
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.
Why 01/17 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 365 frost-free days, LaBelle places 1,870 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within FL, it ranks 813 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 33972'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.