Poteet, TX 78050 Frost Dates
Poteet, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 02/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 178 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/01, roughly 281 days after the last spring frost.
Poteet 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 14 weeks until Poteet's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 02/22 isn't a guarantee
02/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Poteet against the rest of the dataset
About 281 days separate Poteet's last and first frost, putting it 4,805 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 732 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78050's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Poteet can differ from the 78050 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Poteet's frost date answer different questions.