Commerce, TX 75448 Frost Dates
Commerce, TX: when does the frost end?
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.
Commerce 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 Commerce's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Commerce's last frost
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.
Commerce against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 241 frost-free days, Commerce places 8,533 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,896 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75448's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Commerce can differ from the 75448 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Commerce's frost date answer different questions.