Combes, TX 78551 Frost Dates
78551, near Combes, TX: the frost window
Around 01/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 133 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/29, roughly 357 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Combes in Zone 10a (30 to 35°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Combes's growing season runs out in roughly 18 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 01/08 isn't a guarantee
01/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Combes against the rest of the dataset
About 357 days separate Combes's last and first frost, putting it 2,088 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 56 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78551: the frost range, on how to read the range around Combes's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Combes can differ from the 78551 normal.