De Leon, TX 76444 Frost Dates
De Leon, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 196 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 249 days after the last spring frost.
De Leon 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
With roughly 12 weeks until De Leon'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
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
De Leon against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 249 frost-free days, De Leon places 7,634 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,721 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76444's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in De Leon can differ from the 76444 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and De Leon's frost date answer different questions.