Madisonville, TX 77864 Frost Dates
77864, near Madisonville, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/26, roughly 272 days after the last spring frost.
Madisonville 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
Madisonville's growing season runs out in roughly 13 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 Madisonville's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Madisonville against the rest of the dataset
About 272 days separate Madisonville's last and first frost, putting it 5,386 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 996 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77864: local microclimates, on what one yard in Madisonville can differ from the 77864 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Madisonville's frost date answer different questions.