Beeville, TX 78125 Frost Dates
78125, near Beeville, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/16, about 172 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/09, roughly 300 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Beeville in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Beeville'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.
Why 02/16 isn't a guarantee
02/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Beeville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 300 frost-free days, Beeville places 4,101 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 431 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78125: the frost range, on how to read the range around Beeville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Beeville can differ from the 78125 normal.