Frankston, TX 75802 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Frankston, TX, ZIP 75802
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/23, roughly 207 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 234 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Frankston, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Frankston has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Frankston's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Frankston compares
Frankston's growing season runs about 234 days, ranking 9,772 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,063 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Frankston's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Frankston's dates instead of trusting one.