West Orange, TX 70631 Frost Dates
West Orange, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 02/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 159 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/24, roughly 323 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 West Orange, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 17 weeks until West Orange'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
02/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Orange against the rest of the dataset
About 323 days separate West Orange's last and first frost, putting it 3,271 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 203 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70631's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around West Orange's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in West Orange can differ from the 70631 normal.