Longview, TX 75604 Frost Dates
75604, near Longview, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/16, about 200 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 244 days after the last spring frost.
Longview 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Longview'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/16 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 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Longview against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 244 frost-free days, Longview places 8,192 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,833 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75604: the frost range, on how to read the range around Longview's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Longview can differ from the 75604 normal.