Wolfe City, TX 75496 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Wolfe City, TX, ZIP 75496
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/18, roughly 202 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/13, about 241 frost-free days later.
Wolfe City sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Wolfe City 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/01 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Wolfe City compares
About 241 days separate Wolfe City's last and first frost, putting it 8,584 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,909 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Wolfe City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Wolfe City's dates instead of trusting one.