Millsap, TX 76066 Frost Dates
76066, near Millsap, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/24, roughly 208 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Millsap in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Millsap'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 Millsap's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Millsap against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Millsap's last and first frost, putting it 10,257 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,143 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76066: the frost range, on how to read the range around Millsap's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Millsap can differ from the 76066 normal.