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Enchanted Oaks, TX 75156 Frost Dates

75156, near Enchanted Oaks, TX: the frost window

Zone 8b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/18, about 202 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 242 days after the last spring frost.

Enchanted Oaks 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.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Enchanted Oaks'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.

The actual range around Enchanted Oaks's last frost

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.

Enchanted Oaks against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 242 frost-free days, Enchanted Oaks places 8,401 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,886 of 2,558.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 75156: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Enchanted Oaks's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Enchanted Oaks's dates instead of trusting one.