The Colony, TX 75056 Frost Dates
75056, near The Colony, 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 The Colony, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
The Colony'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.
The Colony against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 259 frost-free days, The Colony places 6,554 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,372 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75056: local microclimates, on what one yard in The Colony can differ from the 75056 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and The Colony's frost date answer different questions.