Athens, TX 75752 Frost Dates
Athens, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/18, about 202 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 242 days after the last spring frost.
Athens 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 Athens's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Athens's last frost
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Athens against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 242 frost-free days, Athens places 8,355 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,872 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75752's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Athens's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Athens can differ from the 75752 normal.