Devers, TX 77538 Frost Dates
Devers, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/18, about 174 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/02, roughly 291 days after the last spring frost.
Devers 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 Devers's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/20 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.
Devers against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 291 frost-free days, Devers places 4,486 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 628 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77538's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Devers's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Devers can differ from the 77538 normal.