Eagle Pass, TX 78853 Frost Dates
78853, near Eagle Pass, TX: the frost window
Around 02/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 172 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/03, roughly 293 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Eagle Pass 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
Eagle Pass's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 02/16 isn't a guarantee
02/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eagle Pass against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 293 frost-free days, Eagle Pass places 4,275 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 529 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78853: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Eagle Pass's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Eagle Pass's dates instead of trusting one.