Eagle Lake, TX 77434 Frost Dates
Eagle Lake, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/21, roughly 177 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/01, roughly 285 days after the last spring frost.
Eagle Lake 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 Eagle Lake's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Eagle Lake's last frost
02/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/22 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.
Eagle Lake against the rest of the dataset
About 285 days separate Eagle Lake's last and first frost, putting it 4,641 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 705 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77434's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Eagle Lake can differ from the 77434 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Eagle Lake's frost date answer different questions.