University Park, TX 75231 Frost Dates
75231, near University Park, TX: the frost window
Around 03/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 186 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/29, roughly 272 days after the last spring frost.
University 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
University Park'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 03/02 isn't a guarantee
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
University Park against the rest of the dataset
About 272 days separate University Park's last and first frost, putting it 5,359 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 987 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75231: local microclimates, on what one yard in University Park can differ from the 75231 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and University Park's frost date answer different questions.