Lake Dallas, TX 75065 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lake Dallas, TX, ZIP 75065
Around 03/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 197 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 251 frost-free days later.
Lake 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Lake Dallas has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Lake Dallas's last frost
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/31 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lake Dallas compares
At roughly 251 frost-free days, Lake Dallas places 7,308 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,608 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Lake Dallas's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Dallas's dates instead of trusting one.