Milano, TX 76556 Frost Dates
Milano, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/27, about 183 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/30, roughly 278 days after the last spring frost.
Milano 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 13 weeks until Milano's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Milano's last frost
02/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Milano against the rest of the dataset
About 278 days separate Milano's last and first frost, putting it 4,933 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 766 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76556's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Milano's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Milano can differ from the 76556 normal.