Dallas, TX 75017 Frost Dates
Dallas, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/29, roughly 272 days after the last spring frost.
Dallas sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 13 weeks until Dallas's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Dallas's last frost
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
At roughly 272 frost-free days, Dallas places 5,229 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 890 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75017's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Dallas can differ from the 75017 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Dallas's frost date answer different questions.