Ladonia, TX 75449 Frost Dates
75449, near Ladonia, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/18, about 202 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
Ladonia sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ladonia's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Ladonia's last frost
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ladonia against the rest of the dataset
About 241 days separate Ladonia's last and first frost, putting it 8,609 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,917 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75449: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ladonia's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ladonia can differ from the 75449 normal.