Flatonia, TX 78949 Frost Dates
Flatonia, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/12, about 196 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Flatonia, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Flatonia's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Flatonia's last frost
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Flatonia against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 251 frost-free days, Flatonia places 7,351 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,633 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78949's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Flatonia can differ from the 78949 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Flatonia's frost date answer different questions.