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Woodville, TX 75990 Frost Dates

75990, near Woodville, TX: the frost window

Zone 9a

Around 03/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 193 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 258 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Woodville in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Woodville's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

How much risk comes with planting early here

03/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Woodville against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 258 frost-free days, Woodville places 6,646 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,413 of 2,558.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 75990: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Woodville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Woodville's dates instead of trusting one.