Dallas, TX 75301 Frost Dates
75301, near Dallas, TX: the frost window
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 Dallas, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Dallas'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 Dallas'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.
Dallas against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 272 frost-free days, Dallas places 5,270 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 931 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75301: local microclimates, on what one yard in Dallas can differ from the 75301 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Dallas's frost date answer different questions.