Big Sandy, TX 75755 Frost Dates
75755, near Big Sandy, TX: the frost window
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 229 days after the last spring frost.
Big Sandy 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
Big Sandy's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Big Sandy against the rest of the dataset
About 229 days separate Big Sandy's last and first frost, putting it 10,624 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,176 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75755: the frost range, on how to read the range around Big Sandy's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Big Sandy can differ from the 75755 normal.