Smiley, TX 77994 Frost Dates
Smiley, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/07, about 191 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 260 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Smiley in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Smiley's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Smiley's last frost
03/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Smiley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 260 frost-free days, Smiley places 6,498 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,340 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77994's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Smiley can differ from the 77994 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Smiley's frost date answer different questions.