Granbury, TX 76048 Frost Dates
Granbury, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 228 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 Granbury, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Granbury's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Granbury against the rest of the dataset
Granbury's growing season runs about 228 days, ranking 10,773 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,187 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76048's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Granbury's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Granbury's dates instead of trusting one.