Ore City, TX 75683 Frost Dates
75683, near Ore City, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/10, roughly 194 days out. 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 Ore City 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
Ore City's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Ore City'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.
Ore City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 251 frost-free days, Ore City places 7,357 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,636 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75683: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ore City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ore City can differ from the 75683 normal.