Falfurrias, TX 78353 Frost Dates
78353, near Falfurrias, TX: the frost window
Around 02/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 181 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/01, roughly 285 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 Falfurrias, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Falfurrias'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.
Why 02/25 isn't a guarantee
02/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Falfurrias against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 285 frost-free days, Falfurrias places 4,632 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 696 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78353: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Falfurrias's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Falfurrias's dates instead of trusting one.