Shepherd, TX 77376 Frost Dates
77376, near Shepherd, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/06, about 190 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 261 days after the last spring frost.
Shepherd 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
Shepherd'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.
Why 03/06 isn't a guarantee
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.
Shepherd against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 261 frost-free days, Shepherd places 6,413 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,295 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77376: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Shepherd's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Shepherd's dates instead of trusting one.