Live Oak, TX 78233 Frost Dates
78233, near Live Oak, TX: the frost window
Around 02/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 177 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/05, roughly 289 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Live Oak 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
Live Oak'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 Live Oak's last frost
02/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Live Oak against the rest of the dataset
Live Oak's growing season runs about 289 days, ranking 4,543 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 672 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78233: the frost range, on how to read the range around Live Oak's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Live Oak can differ from the 78233 normal.