Lawn, TX 79530 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Lawn, TX?
Around 03/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 204 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/10, about 236 frost-free days later.
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 Lawn, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Lawn before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Lawn's last frost
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lawn compares
About 236 days separate Lawn's last and first frost, putting it 9,519 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,015 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Lawn can differ from the 79530 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8a and Lawn's frost date answer different questions.