Lone Star, TX 75668 Frost Dates
Lone Star, TX: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lone Star 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Lone Star's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lone Star's last frost
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.
Lone Star against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 251 frost-free days, Lone Star places 7,349 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,631 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75668's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lone Star's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lone Star can differ from the 75668 normal.