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Dallas, TX 75015 Frost Dates

75015, near Dallas, TX: the frost window

Zone 8b

Around 03/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 186 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/29, roughly 272 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Dallas in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Dallas'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.

Why 03/02 isn't a guarantee

03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Dallas against the rest of the dataset

Dallas's growing season runs about 272 days, ranking 5,227 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 888 of 2,558.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 75015: the frost range, on how to read the range around Dallas's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Dallas can differ from the 75015 normal.