Staples, TX 78622 Frost Dates
78622, near Staples, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/28, roughly 184 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/29, roughly 273 days after the last spring frost.
Staples sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Staples's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 02/28 isn't a guarantee
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Staples against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 273 frost-free days, Staples places 5,222 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 883 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78622: local microclimates, on what one yard in Staples can differ from the 78622 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Staples's frost date answer different questions.