Elkhart, TX 75839 Frost Dates
Elkhart, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 207 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Elkhart 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Elkhart's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elkhart against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 234 frost-free days, Elkhart places 9,768 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,062 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75839's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Elkhart's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Elkhart can differ from the 75839 normal.