Alice, TX 78332 Frost Dates
78332, near Alice, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/05, about 161 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/10, roughly 312 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Alice, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Alice's growing season runs out in roughly 15 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 02/05 isn't a guarantee
02/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Alice against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 312 frost-free days, Alice places 3,485 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 272 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78332: local microclimates, on what one yard in Alice can differ from the 78332 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Alice's frost date answer different questions.