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Highland Park, TX 75206 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Highland Park, TX, ZIP 75206

Zone 8b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/29, about 272 frost-free days later.

Highland Park 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

Zone 8b around Highland Park has about 13 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Highland Park's last frost

03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Highland Park compares

Highland Park's growing season runs about 272 days, ranking 5,365 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 990 of 2,558.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Highland Park's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Highland Park can differ from the 75206 normal.