North Port, FL 34289 Frost Dates
North Port, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 02/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 157 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/06, roughly 336 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
With roughly 19 weeks until North Port'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
02/01 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 03/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Port against the rest of the dataset
About 336 days separate North Port's last and first frost, putting it 2,709 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 1,078 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 34289'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 34289 normal.