Palestine, TX 75880 Frost Dates
Palestine, 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.
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 Palestine, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Palestine's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Palestine's last frost
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.
Palestine against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 234 frost-free days, Palestine places 9,715 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,047 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75880's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Palestine's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Palestine's dates instead of trusting one.