Hutchins, TX 75241 Frost Dates
75241, near Hutchins, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/06, about 190 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 265 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Hutchins, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hutchins'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.
The actual range around Hutchins's last frost
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.
Hutchins against the rest of the dataset
About 265 days separate Hutchins's last and first frost, putting it 5,978 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,051 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75241: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hutchins can differ from the 75241 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Hutchins's frost date answer different questions.