Godley, TX 76044 Frost Dates
76044, near Godley, TX: the frost window
Around 03/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 201 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 240 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Godley 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
Godley's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Godley's last frost
03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Godley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 240 frost-free days, Godley places 8,693 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,932 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76044: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Godley's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Godley's dates instead of trusting one.