Gary City, TX 75637 Frost Dates
Gary City, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/11, roughly 195 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
Gary City 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Gary City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Gary City's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 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.
Gary City against the rest of the dataset
Gary City's growing season runs about 250 days, ranking 7,587 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,704 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75637's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Gary City can differ from the 75637 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Gary City's frost date answer different questions.