Highland Park, TX 75247 Frost Dates
Highland Park, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/29, roughly 272 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 Highland Park, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Highland Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Highland Park against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 272 frost-free days, Highland Park places 5,370 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 995 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75247's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Highland Park can differ from the 75247 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Highland Park's frost date answer different questions.