Oak Leaf, TX 75154 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Oak Leaf, TX?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/16, about 245 frost-free days later.
Oak Leaf sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Oak Leaf before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Oak Leaf's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Oak Leaf compares
At roughly 245 frost-free days, Oak Leaf places 8,032 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,815 of 2,558.
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local microclimates covers what one yard in Oak Leaf can differ from the 75154 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8b and Oak Leaf's frost date answer different questions.