Pantego, TX 76013 Frost Dates
76013, near Pantego, TX: the frost window
Around 03/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 193 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 256 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pantego in Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Pantego'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.
The actual range around Pantego's last frost
03/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pantego against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 256 frost-free days, Pantego places 6,825 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,484 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76013: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pantego can differ from the 76013 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Pantego's frost date answer different questions.