Goodrich, TX 77369 Frost Dates
77369, near Goodrich, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/06, roughly 190 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 261 days after the last spring frost.
Goodrich 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
Goodrich's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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 Goodrich's last frost
03/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Goodrich against the rest of the dataset
Goodrich's growing season runs about 261 days, ranking 6,450 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,316 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77369: local microclimates, on what one yard in Goodrich can differ from the 77369 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Goodrich's frost date answer different questions.