Uvalde, TX 78801 Frost Dates
Uvalde, 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 11/14, roughly 248 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Uvalde 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 11 weeks until Uvalde's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Uvalde'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.
Uvalde against the rest of the dataset
About 248 days separate Uvalde's last and first frost, putting it 7,682 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,735 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78801's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Uvalde's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Uvalde's dates instead of trusting one.