FrostDateCheck

Pottsboro, TX 75076 Frost Dates

Pottsboro, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 8a

Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.

Pottsboro sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 12 weeks until Pottsboro's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

Why 03/14 isn't a guarantee

03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Pottsboro against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 250 frost-free days, Pottsboro places 7,540 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,686 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 75076's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pottsboro's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pottsboro can differ from the 75076 normal.