Fort Pierce, FL 34945 Frost Dates
Fort Pierce, FL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/24, about 149 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/14, 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 Fort Pierce, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 20 weeks until Fort Pierce'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
01/24 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 02/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort Pierce against the rest of the dataset
About 365 days separate Fort Pierce's last and first frost, putting it 883 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 359 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 34945's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Fort Pierce can differ from the 34945 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Fort Pierce's frost date answer different questions.