Trenton, TX 75490 Frost Dates
Trenton, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/17, about 201 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
Trenton 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Trenton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Trenton's last frost
03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Trenton against the rest of the dataset
About 241 days separate Trenton's last and first frost, putting it 8,599 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,914 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75490's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Trenton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Trenton's dates instead of trusting one.