Orange Grove, TX 78460 Frost Dates
78460, near Orange Grove, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/05, about 161 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/10, roughly 312 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 10a (30 to 35°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 Orange Grove, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Orange Grove's growing season runs out in roughly 15 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Orange Grove against the rest of the dataset
Orange Grove's growing season runs about 312 days, ranking 3,507 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 276 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78460: local microclimates, on what one yard in Orange Grove can differ from the 78460 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Orange Grove's frost date answer different questions.