Lake City, TX 78383 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lake City, TX, ZIP 78383
Around 02/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 161 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/10, about 312 frost-free days later.
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 Lake City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Lake City has about 15 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Lake City's last frost
02/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/30 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lake City compares
Lake City's growing season runs about 312 days, ranking 3,509 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 278 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Lake City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake City's dates instead of trusting one.