China Grove, TX 78223 Frost Dates
78223, near China Grove, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/20, about 176 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/03, roughly 291 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 China Grove, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
China Grove's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around China Grove's last frost
02/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/20 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.
China Grove against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 291 frost-free days, China Grove places 4,470 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 617 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78223: local microclimates, on what one yard in China Grove can differ from the 78223 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and China Grove's frost date answer different questions.