Rusk, TX 75772 Frost Dates
Rusk, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 191 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 263 days after the last spring frost.
Rusk 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 13 weeks until Rusk's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Rusk's last frost
03/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/15 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.
Rusk against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 263 frost-free days, Rusk places 6,104 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,116 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75772's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Rusk's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Rusk can differ from the 75772 normal.