Volente, TX 78726 Frost Dates
78726, near Volente, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/11, about 195 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 254 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Volente in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Volente'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 Volente's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Volente against the rest of the dataset
Volente's growing season runs about 254 days, ranking 7,050 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,528 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78726: local microclimates, on what one yard in Volente can differ from the 78726 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Volente's frost date answer different questions.