Nome, TX 77665 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Nome, TX?
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.
Nome 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 14 weeks of growing season left in Nome before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Nome'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 Nome compares
At roughly 291 frost-free days, Nome places 4,482 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 624 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Nome can differ from the 77665 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 9b and Nome's frost date answer different questions.