Cooper, TX 75432 Frost Dates
75432, near Cooper, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/18, roughly 202 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
Cooper 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
Cooper'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.
Why 03/18 isn't a guarantee
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cooper against the rest of the dataset
About 241 days separate Cooper's last and first frost, putting it 8,566 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,907 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75432: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cooper can differ from the 75432 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Cooper's frost date answer different questions.