La Ward, TX 77991 Frost Dates
La Ward, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/01, roughly 157 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/21, roughly 321 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 La Ward, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 16 weeks until La Ward's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 02/01 isn't a guarantee
02/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
La Ward against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 321 frost-free days, La Ward places 3,315 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 220 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77991's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around La Ward's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in La Ward can differ from the 77991 normal.