LaCoste, TX 78054 Frost Dates
78054, near LaCoste, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/18, about 174 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/09, roughly 296 days after the last spring frost.
LaCoste 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
LaCoste's growing season runs out in roughly 15 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 LaCoste's last frost
02/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
LaCoste against the rest of the dataset
About 296 days separate LaCoste's last and first frost, putting it 4,246 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 515 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78054: the frost range, on how to read the range around LaCoste's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in LaCoste can differ from the 78054 normal.