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Seven Points, TX 75143 Frost Dates

75143, near Seven Points, TX: the frost window

Zone 8b

Around 03/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 191 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/23, roughly 261 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Seven Points 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

Seven Points'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 Seven Points's last frost

03/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Seven Points against the rest of the dataset

About 261 days separate Seven Points's last and first frost, putting it 6,423 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,297 of 2,558.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 75143: the frost range, on how to read the range around Seven Points's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Seven Points can differ from the 75143 normal.