Hallsville, TX 75650 Frost Dates
75650, near Hallsville, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 244 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hallsville 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
Hallsville'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.
Hallsville against the rest of the dataset
Hallsville's growing season runs about 244 days, ranking 8,230 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,841 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75650: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hallsville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hallsville can differ from the 75650 normal.