Schulenburg, TX 78956 Frost Dates
Schulenburg, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 188 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 267 days after the last spring frost.
Schulenburg sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 13 weeks until Schulenburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Schulenburg's last frost
03/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Schulenburg against the rest of the dataset
About 267 days separate Schulenburg's last and first frost, putting it 5,861 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,031 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 78956's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Schulenburg can differ from the 78956 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Schulenburg's frost date answer different questions.