Melissa, TX 75454 Frost Dates
Melissa, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/17, about 201 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 241 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 Melissa, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Melissa's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Melissa's last frost
03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Melissa against the rest of the dataset
Melissa's growing season runs about 241 days, ranking 8,522 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,895 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75454's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Melissa can differ from the 75454 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Melissa's frost date answer different questions.