El Campo, TX 77467 Frost Dates
77467, near El Campo, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/23, roughly 179 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/05, roughly 287 days after the last spring frost.
El Campo 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
El Campo's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/23 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 03/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
El Campo against the rest of the dataset
El Campo's growing season runs about 287 days, ranking 4,589 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 681 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77467: the frost range, on how to read the range around El Campo's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in El Campo can differ from the 77467 normal.