Douglassville, TX 75560 Frost Dates
75560, near Douglassville, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/04, roughly 188 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 261 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Douglassville 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
Douglassville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Douglassville against the rest of the dataset
About 261 days separate Douglassville's last and first frost, putting it 6,457 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,320 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75560: local microclimates, on what one yard in Douglassville can differ from the 75560 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Douglassville's frost date answer different questions.