Hays, TX 78652 Frost Dates
Hays, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 196 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 252 days after the last spring frost.
Hays 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Hays's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hays's last frost
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hays against the rest of the dataset
About 252 days separate Hays's last and first frost, putting it 7,264 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,580 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78652's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hays's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hays can differ from the 78652 normal.