Lumberton, TX 77657 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lumberton, TX, ZIP 77657
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/18, roughly 174 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/02, about 291 frost-free days later.
Lumberton 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Lumberton has about 14 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Lumberton's last frost
02/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lumberton compares
At roughly 291 frost-free days, Lumberton places 4,434 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 596 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Lumberton can differ from the 77657 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Lumberton's frost date answer different questions.