Yorktown, TX 78164 Frost Dates
Yorktown, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 02/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 172 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/09, roughly 300 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Yorktown, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 15 weeks until Yorktown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Yorktown's last frost
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.
Yorktown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 300 frost-free days, Yorktown places 4,131 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 457 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78164's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Yorktown's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Yorktown can differ from the 78164 normal.