Jourdanton, TX 78062 Frost Dates
Jourdanton, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/27, about 183 days from today. 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 274 frost-free days, Jourdanton places 5,159 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 852 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78062'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 78062 normal.