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Lyford, TX 78594 Frost Dates

Lyford, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 10a

Around 01/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 135 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/27, roughly 355 days after the last spring frost.

Lyford 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 17 weeks until Lyford'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

01/10 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.

Lyford against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 355 frost-free days, Lyford places 2,149 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 67 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 78594's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lyford can differ from the 78594 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Lyford's frost date answer different questions.