Little River-Academy, TX 76554 Frost Dates
Little River-Academy, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
Little River-Academy sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Little River-Academy's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/14 isn't a guarantee
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Little River-Academy against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 251 frost-free days, Little River-Academy places 7,339 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,624 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76554's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Little River-Academy can differ from the 76554 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Little River-Academy's frost date answer different questions.