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Jacinto City, TX 77078 Frost Dates

Jacinto City, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 9b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/13, about 169 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/09, roughly 300 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Jacinto City in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 15 weeks until Jacinto City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Jacinto City's last frost

02/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Jacinto City against the rest of the dataset

About 300 days separate Jacinto City's last and first frost, putting it 4,104 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 434 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 77078'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.