Volente, TX 78732 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Volente, TX, ZIP 78732
Around 03/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 195 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 254 frost-free days later.
Volente 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Volente has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Volente's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Volente compares
At roughly 254 frost-free days, Volente places 7,051 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,529 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Volente can differ from the 78732 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Volente's frost date answer different questions.