Chico, TX 76431 Frost Dates
Chico, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 219 days after the last spring frost.
Chico sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
With roughly 10 weeks until Chico's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Chico's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Chico against the rest of the dataset
About 219 days separate Chico's last and first frost, putting it 13,068 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,321 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76431's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Chico's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Chico can differ from the 76431 normal.