Orange, TX 77632 Frost Dates
77632, near Orange, TX: the frost window
Around 02/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 184 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/23, roughly 273 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 Orange, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Orange's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Orange's last frost
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Orange against the rest of the dataset
About 273 days separate Orange's last and first frost, putting it 5,197 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 868 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77632: the frost range, on how to read the range around Orange's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Orange can differ from the 77632 normal.