DeSoto, TX 75115 Frost Dates
DeSoto, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/06, roughly 190 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 265 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 DeSoto, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until DeSoto's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
DeSoto against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 265 frost-free days, DeSoto places 5,959 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,044 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75115's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and DeSoto's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around DeSoto's dates instead of trusting one.