Fort Worth, TX 76004 Frost Dates
76004, near Fort Worth, TX: the frost window
Around 03/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 189 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 264 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fort Worth 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
Fort Worth'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/05 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 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort Worth against the rest of the dataset
Fort Worth's growing season runs about 264 days, ranking 6,007 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,057 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76004: the frost range, on how to read the range around Fort Worth's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Fort Worth can differ from the 76004 normal.