Waxahachie, TX 75167 Frost Dates
75167, near Waxahachie, TX: the frost window
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. 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
Waxahachie'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 Waxahachie's last frost
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
About 245 days separate Waxahachie's last and first frost, putting it 7,968 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,793 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75167: local microclimates, on what one yard in Waxahachie can differ from the 75167 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Waxahachie's frost date answer different questions.