Okeechobee, FL 34972 Frost Dates
Okeechobee, FL: when does the frost end?
Around 01/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 156 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/11, roughly 355 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 Okeechobee, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 19 weeks until Okeechobee's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 01/31 isn't a guarantee
01/31 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 03/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Okeechobee against the rest of the dataset
About 355 days separate Okeechobee's last and first frost, putting it 2,140 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within FL, it ranks 941 of 1,609.
Learn more
Before leaning on 34972's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Okeechobee's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Okeechobee's dates instead of trusting one.