Rusk, TX 75785 Frost Dates
75785, near Rusk, TX: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Rusk in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Rusk's growing season runs out in roughly 13 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 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
About 263 days separate Rusk's last and first frost, putting it 6,106 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,118 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75785: local microclimates, on what one yard in Rusk can differ from the 75785 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Rusk's frost date answer different questions.