Gregory, TX 78359 Frost Dates
78359, near Gregory, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/16, roughly 141 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/05, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Gregory sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
Gregory's growing season runs out in roughly 19 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 01/16 isn't a guarantee
01/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gregory against the rest of the dataset
Gregory's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,960 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 44 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78359: local microclimates, on what one yard in Gregory can differ from the 78359 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Gregory's frost date answer different questions.