Lovelady, TX 75851 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Lovelady, TX?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/13, roughly 197 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/17, about 251 frost-free days later.
Lovelady 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 12 weeks of growing season left in Lovelady before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Lovelady's last frost
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/18 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lovelady compares
At roughly 251 frost-free days, Lovelady places 7,388 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,657 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8b and Lovelady's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Lovelady's dates instead of trusting one.