Cooper, TX 75441 Frost Dates
Cooper, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/18, about 202 days from today. 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Cooper's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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 8,567 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,908 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75441's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cooper's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cooper can differ from the 75441 normal.