Jacinto City, TX 77049 Frost Dates
Jacinto City, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/20, about 176 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/04, roughly 292 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Jacinto City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 14 weeks until Jacinto City'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
02/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jacinto City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 292 frost-free days, Jacinto City places 4,349 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 540 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77049's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Jacinto City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Jacinto City's dates instead of trusting one.