La Feria, TX 78559 Frost Dates
78559, near La Feria, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/10, roughly 135 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/27, roughly 355 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 La Feria, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
La Feria's growing season runs out in roughly 17 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around La Feria's last frost
01/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
La Feria against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 355 frost-free days, La Feria places 2,138 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 62 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78559: the frost range, on how to read the range around La Feria's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in La Feria can differ from the 78559 normal.