Palestine, TX 75884 Frost Dates
Palestine, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/23, roughly 207 days out. 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.
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.
Palestine against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 234 frost-free days, Palestine places 9,717 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,049 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75884's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Palestine can differ from the 75884 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Palestine's frost date answer different questions.