Orchard, TX 77464 Frost Dates
Orchard, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/09, roughly 165 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/13, roughly 305 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Orchard, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 15 weeks until Orchard's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Orchard's last frost
02/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Orchard against the rest of the dataset
Orchard's growing season runs about 305 days, ranking 3,741 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 293 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77464's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Orchard can differ from the 77464 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Orchard's frost date answer different questions.