Henderson, TX 75652 Frost Dates
Henderson, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/11, about 195 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 250 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 Henderson, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Henderson's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Henderson'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.
Henderson against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 250 frost-free days, Henderson places 7,500 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,676 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75652's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Henderson's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Henderson can differ from the 75652 normal.