Beeville, TX 78389 Frost Dates
78389, near Beeville, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/01, about 157 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/17, roughly 324 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 Beeville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Beeville's growing season runs out in roughly 16 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 02/01 isn't a guarantee
02/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Beeville against the rest of the dataset
Beeville's growing season runs about 324 days, ranking 3,222 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 194 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78389: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Beeville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Beeville's dates instead of trusting one.