Okeechobee, FL 34974 Frost Dates
34974, near Okeechobee, FL: the frost window
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
Okeechobee's growing season runs out in roughly 19 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 Okeechobee's last frost
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
Okeechobee's growing season runs about 355 days, ranking 2,142 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within FL, it ranks 943 of 1,609.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 34974: the frost range, on how to read the range around Okeechobee's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Okeechobee can differ from the 34974 normal.