Pflugerville, TX 78766 Frost Dates
Pflugerville, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/11, roughly 195 days out. 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 Pflugerville 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Pflugerville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pflugerville'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.
Pflugerville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 254 frost-free days, Pflugerville places 6,997 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,525 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78766's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pflugerville can differ from the 78766 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Pflugerville's frost date answer different questions.