Ropesville, TX 79358 Frost Dates
Ropesville, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/24, roughly 208 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Ropesville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Ropesville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ropesville's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ropesville against the rest of the dataset
About 233 days separate Ropesville's last and first frost, putting it 9,968 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,110 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79358's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ropesville can differ from the 79358 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Ropesville's frost date answer different questions.