Gun Barrel City, TX 75147 Frost Dates
75147, near Gun Barrel City, TX: the frost window
Around 03/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 202 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 242 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 Gun Barrel City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gun Barrel City's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gun Barrel City against the rest of the dataset
About 242 days separate Gun Barrel City's last and first frost, putting it 8,362 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,873 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75147: local microclimates, on what one yard in Gun Barrel City can differ from the 75147 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Gun Barrel City's frost date answer different questions.