Indian Lake, TX 78553 Frost Dates
Indian Lake, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/08, roughly 133 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/04, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
Indian Lake 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 18 weeks until Indian Lake's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Indian Lake against the rest of the dataset
Indian Lake's growing season runs about 365 days, ranking 1,974 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 46 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78553's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Indian Lake can differ from the 78553 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Indian Lake's frost date answer different questions.