Farmers Branch, TX 75244 Frost Dates
75244, near Farmers Branch, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/29, roughly 272 days after the last spring frost.
Farmers Branch 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
Farmers Branch'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 Farmers Branch's last frost
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.
Farmers Branch against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 272 frost-free days, Farmers Branch places 5,331 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 983 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75244: local microclimates, on what one yard in Farmers Branch can differ from the 75244 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Farmers Branch's frost date answer different questions.