Johnson City, TX 78636 Frost Dates
Johnson City, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/29, roughly 274 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Johnson City in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Johnson City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Johnson City's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Johnson City against the rest of the dataset
About 274 days separate Johnson City's last and first frost, putting it 5,164 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 854 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78636's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Johnson City's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Johnson City's dates instead of trusting one.