Leakey, TX 78838 Frost Dates
Leakey, 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.
Leakey sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Leakey's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Leakey against the rest of the dataset
About 248 days separate Leakey's last and first frost, putting it 7,733 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,739 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78838's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Leakey's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Leakey can differ from the 78838 normal.