Paris, TX 75460 Frost Dates
75460, near Paris, TX: the frost window
Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 247 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Paris in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Paris'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 Paris's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Paris against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 247 frost-free days, Paris places 7,796 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,756 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75460: local microclimates, on what one yard in Paris can differ from the 75460 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Paris's frost date answer different questions.