Dalworthington Gardens, TX 76001 Frost Dates
76001, near Dalworthington Gardens, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/09, about 193 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 256 days after the last spring frost.
Dalworthington Gardens 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Dalworthington Gardens'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.
Why 03/09 isn't a guarantee
03/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dalworthington Gardens against the rest of the dataset
About 256 days separate Dalworthington Gardens's last and first frost, putting it 6,828 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,486 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76001: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Dalworthington Gardens's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Dalworthington Gardens's dates instead of trusting one.