La Joya, TX 78560 Frost Dates
La Joya, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/09, about 134 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/03, roughly 365 days after the last spring frost.
La Joya 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 La Joya'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
01/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
La Joya against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 365 frost-free days, La Joya places 1,881 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 38 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78560's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around La Joya's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in La Joya can differ from the 78560 normal.