Balch Springs, TX 75217 Frost Dates
75217, near Balch Springs, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/06, roughly 190 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 265 days after the last spring frost.
Balch Springs 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
Balch Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/06 isn't a guarantee
03/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Balch Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 265 frost-free days, Balch Springs places 5,972 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,050 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75217: local microclimates, on what one yard in Balch Springs can differ from the 75217 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Balch Springs's frost date answer different questions.