Honey Grove, TX 75488 Frost Dates
75488, near Honey Grove, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/19, roughly 203 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 237 days after the last spring frost.
Honey Grove 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
Honey Grove'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Honey Grove against the rest of the dataset
Honey Grove's growing season runs about 237 days, ranking 9,124 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,997 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75488: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Honey Grove's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Honey Grove's dates instead of trusting one.