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Diboll, TX 75926 Frost Dates

75926, near Diboll, TX: the frost window

Zone 8b

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.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Diboll 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

Diboll'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.

The actual range around Diboll's last frost

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.

Diboll against the rest of the dataset

Diboll's growing season runs about 267 days, ranking 5,849 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,027 of 2,558.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 75926: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Diboll's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Diboll's dates instead of trusting one.