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Clarksville, TX 75426 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Clarksville, TX?

Zone 8a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/20, roughly 204 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/10, about 233 frost-free days later.

Clarksville sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Clarksville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Clarksville's last frost

03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Clarksville compares

About 233 days separate Clarksville's last and first frost, putting it 9,903 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,099 of 2,558.

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