Newton, TX 75932 Frost Dates
75932, near Newton, TX: the frost window
Around 03/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 193 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 253 days after the last spring frost.
Newton sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Newton's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 253 frost-free days, Newton places 7,161 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,552 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75932: local microclimates, on what one yard in Newton can differ from the 75932 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Newton's frost date answer different questions.