Canton, TX 75103 Frost Dates
75103, near Canton, TX: the frost window
Around 03/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 195 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 252 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Canton in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Canton'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.
The actual range around Canton's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 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.
Canton against the rest of the dataset
About 252 days separate Canton's last and first frost, putting it 7,227 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,567 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75103: the frost range, on how to read the range around Canton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Canton can differ from the 75103 normal.