Palacios, TX 77419 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Palacios, TX?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/01, about 157 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/17, about 319 frost-free days later.
Palacios sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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.
What to do before the first frost
About 16 weeks of growing season left in Palacios before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Palacios's last frost
02/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Palacios compares
Palacios's growing season runs about 319 days, ranking 3,320 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 221 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Palacios's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Palacios can differ from the 77419 normal.