Shenandoah, TX 77381 Frost Dates
Shenandoah, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/19, about 175 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/03, roughly 290 days after the last spring frost.
Shenandoah 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
With roughly 14 weeks until Shenandoah's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Shenandoah's last frost
02/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Shenandoah against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 290 frost-free days, Shenandoah places 4,515 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 655 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77381's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Shenandoah's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Shenandoah can differ from the 77381 normal.