Plano, TX 75025 Frost Dates
75025, near Plano, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/07, about 191 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 259 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Plano, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Plano's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Plano against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 259 frost-free days, Plano places 6,515 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,346 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75025: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Plano's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Plano's dates instead of trusting one.