Big Lake, TX 76930 Frost Dates
Big Lake, 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 215 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Big Lake, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Big Lake's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Big Lake's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Big Lake against the rest of the dataset
Big Lake's growing season runs about 215 days, ranking 14,092 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,341 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76930's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Big Lake can differ from the 76930 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Big Lake's frost date answer different questions.