Lueders, TX 79533 Frost Dates
Lueders, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/23, roughly 207 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.
Lueders sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Lueders's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lueders's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lueders against the rest of the dataset
Lueders's growing season runs about 234 days, ranking 9,815 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,076 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79533's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lueders can differ from the 79533 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Lueders's frost date answer different questions.