Groves, TX 77643 Frost Dates
Groves, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/14, about 170 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/07, roughly 301 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Groves, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 14 weeks until Groves's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Groves's last frost
02/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Groves against the rest of the dataset
About 301 days separate Groves's last and first frost, putting it 3,959 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 302 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77643's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Groves can differ from the 77643 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Groves's frost date answer different questions.