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The match was officially called off on Friday afternoon after referee Peter Walton carried out an inspection.
A statement on the club's website, www.blackpoolfc.co.uk, read: "Mr Walton expressed concern that the severely affected areas of the playing surface would not thaw sufficiently for the game to be completed."
This weekend's Football League programme has been ravaged by the weather, but this was the first Premier League game to fall.
Leaders QPR's trip to Hull headed the list of postponements in the npower Championship.
The clash was cancelled on safety grounds by the Tigers, meaning the match went the same way as Nottingham Forest v Bristol City and Portsmouth v Burnley. The South Yorkshire derby between Doncaster and Barnsley fell on Thursday, as did Reading's trip to Sheffield United
The weather hit hard in the lower divisions, with only three League One matches - those at Swindon, Exeter and Bristol Rovers - surviving, and just two - at Northampton and Oxford - in League Two.