Daingerfield, TX 75638 Frost Dates
75638, near Daingerfield, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/10, about 194 days from today. 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 Daingerfield, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Daingerfield'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.
Why 03/10 isn't a guarantee
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.
Daingerfield against the rest of the dataset
About 251 days separate Daingerfield's last and first frost, putting it 7,337 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,622 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75638: the frost range, on how to read the range around Daingerfield's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Daingerfield can differ from the 75638 normal.