Groveton, TX 75834 Frost Dates
75834, near Groveton, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/26, roughly 267 days after the last spring frost.
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 Groveton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Groveton'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Groveton against the rest of the dataset
About 267 days separate Groveton's last and first frost, putting it 5,877 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,033 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75834: local microclimates, on what one yard in Groveton can differ from the 75834 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Groveton's frost date answer different questions.