Dayton Lakes, TX 77328 Frost Dates
77328, near Dayton Lakes, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/20, roughly 176 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/04, roughly 292 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Dayton Lakes in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Dayton Lakes's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Dayton Lakes's last frost
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.
Dayton Lakes against the rest of the dataset
Dayton Lakes's growing season runs about 292 days, ranking 4,387 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 549 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77328: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Dayton Lakes's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Dayton Lakes's dates instead of trusting one.