Toco, TX 75486 Frost Dates
75486, near Toco, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/14, about 198 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 247 days after the last spring frost.
Toco sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Toco'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.
Why 03/14 isn't a guarantee
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.
Toco against the rest of the dataset
About 247 days separate Toco's last and first frost, putting it 7,900 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,790 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75486: the frost range, on how to read the range around Toco's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Toco can differ from the 75486 normal.