Commerce, TX 75428 Frost Dates
75428, near Commerce, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/15, about 199 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 245 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 Commerce, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Commerce's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Commerce's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Commerce against the rest of the dataset
Commerce's growing season runs about 245 days, ranking 8,008 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,802 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75428: the frost range, on how to read the range around Commerce's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Commerce can differ from the 75428 normal.