Refugio, TX 78377 Frost Dates
Refugio, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/27, about 183 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/02, roughly 283 days after the last spring frost.
Refugio 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
With roughly 14 weeks until Refugio's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Refugio's last frost
02/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Refugio against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 283 frost-free days, Refugio places 4,747 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 731 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78377's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Refugio's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Refugio's dates instead of trusting one.