Bedford, TX 76022 Frost Dates
76022, near Bedford, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/08, roughly 192 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 262 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Bedford, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bedford'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.
Why 03/08 isn't a guarantee
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bedford against the rest of the dataset
About 262 days separate Bedford's last and first frost, putting it 6,196 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,145 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76022: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bedford's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bedford can differ from the 76022 normal.