New London, TX 75682 Frost Dates
New London, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/08, about 192 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 251 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 New London, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until New London's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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 7,368 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,645 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75682's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and New London's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around New London's dates instead of trusting one.