Kenedy, TX 78145 Frost Dates
78145, near Kenedy, 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.
Kenedy 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
Kenedy'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Kenedy against the rest of the dataset
Kenedy's growing season runs about 300 days, ranking 4,122 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 452 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78145: local microclimates, on what one yard in Kenedy can differ from the 78145 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Kenedy's frost date answer different questions.