New London, TX 75666 Frost Dates
75666, near New London, TX: the frost window
Around 03/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 192 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts New London 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
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
At roughly 251 frost-free days, New London places 7,367 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,644 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75666: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and New London's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around New London's dates instead of trusting one.