Bandera, TX 78055 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Bandera, TX, ZIP 78055
Around 04/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 218 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 211 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Bandera, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Bandera has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Bandera's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Bandera compares
At roughly 211 frost-free days, Bandera places 14,817 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,394 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Bandera can differ from the 78055 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Bandera's frost date answer different questions.