Meadowlakes, TX 78654 Frost Dates
78654, near Meadowlakes, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/06, roughly 190 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/23, roughly 262 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Meadowlakes, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Meadowlakes's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Meadowlakes's last frost
03/06 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 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Meadowlakes against the rest of the dataset
Meadowlakes's growing season runs about 262 days, ranking 6,238 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,153 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78654: the frost range, on how to read the range around Meadowlakes's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Meadowlakes can differ from the 78654 normal.