Chandler, TX 75709 Frost Dates
75709, near Chandler, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/08, roughly 192 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 258 days after the last spring frost.
Chandler 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
Chandler'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 Chandler's last frost
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 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.
Chandler against the rest of the dataset
About 258 days separate Chandler's last and first frost, putting it 6,639 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,408 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75709: local microclimates, on what one yard in Chandler can differ from the 75709 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Chandler's frost date answer different questions.