Waelder, TX 78959 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Waelder, TX, ZIP 78959
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/12, roughly 196 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/19, about 251 frost-free days later.
Waelder 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Waelder has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Waelder's last frost
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Waelder compares
At roughly 251 frost-free days, Waelder places 7,376 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,652 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Waelder can differ from the 78959 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Waelder's frost date answer different questions.