New London, TX 75653 Frost Dates
75653, near New London, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/08, roughly 192 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
New London 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
New London's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
New London against the rest of the dataset
About 251 days separate New London's last and first frost, putting it 7,365 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,642 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75653: local microclimates, on what one yard in New London can differ from the 75653 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and New London's frost date answer different questions.