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White Oak, TX 75693 Frost Dates

White Oak, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 8b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 244 days after the last spring frost.

White Oak sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 11 weeks until White Oak's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around White Oak's last frost

03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

White Oak against the rest of the dataset

About 244 days separate White Oak's last and first frost, putting it 8,229 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,840 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 75693's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and White Oak's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around White Oak's dates instead of trusting one.