Midlothian, TX 76065 Frost Dates
Midlothian, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/16, about 200 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
Midlothian sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Midlothian's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Midlothian's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Midlothian against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 245 frost-free days, Midlothian places 7,969 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,794 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76065's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Midlothian's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Midlothian can differ from the 76065 normal.