Waskom, TX 75692 Frost Dates
75692, near Waskom, TX: the frost window
Around 03/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 190 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 257 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 Waskom, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Waskom'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.
The actual range around Waskom's last frost
03/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waskom against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 257 frost-free days, Waskom places 6,712 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,440 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75692: the frost range, on how to read the range around Waskom's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Waskom can differ from the 75692 normal.