Palm Valley, TX 78552 Frost Dates
78552, near Palm Valley, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/08, about 133 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/29, roughly 357 days after the last spring frost.
Palm Valley 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
Palm Valley'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.
Palm Valley against the rest of the dataset
Palm Valley's growing season runs about 357 days, ranking 2,092 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 60 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78552: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 10a and Palm Valley's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Palm Valley's dates instead of trusting one.