Honey Grove, TX 75470 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Honey Grove, TX?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/14, about 198 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/16, about 247 frost-free days later.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Honey Grove, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Honey Grove before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Honey Grove compares
At roughly 247 frost-free days, Honey Grove places 7,847 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,774 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Honey Grove can differ from the 75470 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8a and Honey Grove's frost date answer different questions.