Hawk Cove, TX 75474 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Hawk Cove, TX, ZIP 75474
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/16, about 200 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/14, about 242 frost-free days later.
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 Hawk Cove, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Hawk Cove has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
Why 03/16 isn't a guarantee
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Hawk Cove compares
At roughly 242 frost-free days, Hawk Cove places 8,397 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,885 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Hawk Cove's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Hawk Cove can differ from the 75474 normal.