La Grange, TX 78963 Frost Dates
78963, near La Grange, TX: the frost window
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.
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 La Grange, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
La Grange's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around La Grange'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.
La Grange against the rest of the dataset
About 267 days separate La Grange's last and first frost, putting it 5,854 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,030 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78963: local microclimates, on what one yard in La Grange can differ from the 78963 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and La Grange's frost date answer different questions.