Yoakum, TX 77995 Frost Dates
Yoakum, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/30, roughly 276 days after the last spring frost.
Yoakum 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
With roughly 13 weeks until Yoakum's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 03/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Yoakum against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 276 frost-free days, Yoakum places 5,092 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 832 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77995's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Yoakum's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Yoakum's dates instead of trusting one.