Beeville, TX 78142 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Beeville, TX, ZIP 78142
Around 02/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 172 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/09, about 300 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Beeville in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Beeville has about 15 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Beeville compares
At roughly 300 frost-free days, Beeville places 4,102 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 432 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Beeville can differ from the 78142 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Beeville's frost date answer different questions.