La Grulla, TX 78548 Frost Dates
La Grulla, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/31, roughly 156 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/17, roughly 321 days after the last spring frost.
La Grulla sits in USDA Zone 10a (30 to 35°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 16 weeks until La Grulla's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around La Grulla's last frost
01/31 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 12/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
La Grulla against the rest of the dataset
About 321 days separate La Grulla's last and first frost, putting it 3,308 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 215 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78548's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in La Grulla can differ from the 78548 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and La Grulla's frost date answer different questions.