East Mountain, TX 75608 Frost Dates
75608, near East Mountain, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/10, roughly 194 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for East Mountain, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
East Mountain'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 East Mountain's last frost
03/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
East Mountain against the rest of the dataset
East Mountain's growing season runs about 251 days, ranking 7,373 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,649 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75608: local microclimates, on what one yard in East Mountain can differ from the 75608 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and East Mountain's frost date answer different questions.