Lancaster, TX 75134 Frost Dates
Lancaster, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/06, about 190 days from today. 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 Lancaster, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Lancaster's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lancaster's last frost
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.
Lancaster against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 265 frost-free days, Lancaster places 5,960 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,045 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75134's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lancaster's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lancaster can differ from the 75134 normal.