Waxahachie, TX 75165 Frost Dates
Waxahachie, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Waxahachie 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Waxahachie's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waxahachie against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 245 frost-free days, Waxahachie places 7,967 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,792 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75165's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Waxahachie's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Waxahachie can differ from the 75165 normal.