North Port, FL 34287 Frost Dates
34287, near North Port, FL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/25, about 150 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/19, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10a (30 to 35°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for North Port, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
North Port's growing season runs out in roughly 21 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around North Port's last frost
01/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 02/15 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 566 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 167 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34287: the frost range, on how to read the range around North Port's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in North Port can differ from the 34287 normal.