Dalworthington Gardens, TX 76016 Frost Dates
76016, near Dalworthington Gardens, 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 11/21, roughly 256 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Dalworthington Gardens 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
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.
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 02/18 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
At roughly 256 frost-free days, Dalworthington Gardens places 6,829 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,487 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76016: local microclimates, on what one yard in Dalworthington Gardens can differ from the 76016 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Dalworthington Gardens's frost date answer different questions.