Quitman, TX 75783 Frost Dates
75783, near Quitman, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/07, about 191 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/23, roughly 260 days after the last spring frost.
Quitman 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
Quitman'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 Quitman'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 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Quitman against the rest of the dataset
About 260 days separate Quitman's last and first frost, putting it 6,488 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,335 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75783: the frost range, on how to read the range around Quitman's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Quitman can differ from the 75783 normal.