Los Ybanez, TX 79331 Frost Dates
79331, near Los Ybanez, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Los Ybanez, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Los Ybanez's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Los Ybanez against the rest of the dataset
About 220 days separate Los Ybanez's last and first frost, putting it 12,916 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,309 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79331: the frost range, on how to read the range around Los Ybanez's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Los Ybanez can differ from the 79331 normal.