Sulphur Springs, TX 75420 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Sulphur Springs, TX?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/15, about 199 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/14, about 245 frost-free days later.
Sulphur Springs 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Sulphur Springs before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Sulphur Springs's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/25 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/04 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sulphur Springs compares
At roughly 245 frost-free days, Sulphur Springs places 7,993 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,799 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8b and Sulphur Springs's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Sulphur Springs's dates instead of trusting one.