Glen Rose, TX 76077 Frost Dates
76077, near Glen Rose, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
Glen Rose sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Glen Rose's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Glen Rose against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 225 frost-free days, Glen Rose places 11,424 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,252 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76077: local microclimates, on what one yard in Glen Rose can differ from the 76077 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Glen Rose's frost date answer different questions.