Garden Ridge, TX 78266 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Garden Ridge, TX?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/21, about 177 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/05, about 289 frost-free days later.
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 Garden Ridge, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 14 weeks of growing season left in Garden Ridge before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Garden Ridge's last frost
02/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Garden Ridge compares
At roughly 289 frost-free days, Garden Ridge places 4,551 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 675 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Garden Ridge can differ from the 78266 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 9a and Garden Ridge's frost date answer different questions.