Wake Village, TX 75501 Frost Dates
75501, near Wake Village, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/15, roughly 199 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 249 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wake Village in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wake Village's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/15 isn't a guarantee
03/15 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 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wake Village against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 249 frost-free days, Wake Village places 7,621 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,712 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75501: local microclimates, on what one yard in Wake Village can differ from the 75501 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Wake Village's frost date answer different questions.