Jourdanton, TX 78026 Frost Dates
Jourdanton, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/27, roughly 183 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/28, roughly 274 days after the last spring frost.
Jourdanton 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 Jourdanton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Jourdanton's last frost
02/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jourdanton against the rest of the dataset
About 274 days separate Jourdanton's last and first frost, putting it 5,158 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 851 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78026's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Jourdanton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Jourdanton can differ from the 78026 normal.