China Grove, TX 78263 Frost Dates
78263, near China Grove, TX: the frost window
Around 02/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 176 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/03, roughly 291 days after the last spring frost.
China Grove 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
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
About 291 days separate China Grove's last and first frost, putting it 4,472 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 619 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78263: local microclimates, on what one yard in China Grove can differ from the 78263 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and China Grove's frost date answer different questions.