Devine, TX 78016 Frost Dates
78016, near Devine, TX: the frost window
Around 02/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 182 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/28, roughly 278 days after the last spring frost.
Devine 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
Devine'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 Devine's last frost
02/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Devine against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 278 frost-free days, Devine places 4,925 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 758 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78016: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Devine's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Devine's dates instead of trusting one.