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Anna, TX 75409 Frost Dates

Anna, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 8b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/17, roughly 201 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.

Anna 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

With roughly 11 weeks until Anna's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Anna's last frost

03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Anna against the rest of the dataset

Anna's growing season runs about 241 days, ranking 8,518 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,893 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 75409's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Anna's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Anna's dates instead of trusting one.