Avery, TX 75554 Frost Dates
75554, near Avery, TX: the frost window
Around 03/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 204 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
Avery 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
Avery'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.
The actual range around Avery's last frost
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Avery against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 233 frost-free days, Avery places 9,970 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,112 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75554: the frost range, on how to read the range around Avery's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Avery can differ from the 75554 normal.