Pecan Gap, TX 75415 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pecan Gap, TX, ZIP 75415
Around 03/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 202 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/13, about 241 frost-free days later.
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 Pecan Gap, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Pecan Gap has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Pecan Gap's last frost
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/01 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pecan Gap compares
Pecan Gap's growing season runs about 241 days, ranking 8,641 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,924 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Pecan Gap's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Pecan Gap's dates instead of trusting one.