Peaster, TX 76088 Frost Dates
76088, near Peaster, TX: the frost window
Around 03/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 208 days away. 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 Peaster 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
Peaster'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 Peaster'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.
Peaster against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Peaster's last and first frost, putting it 10,242 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,136 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76088: the frost range, on how to read the range around Peaster's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Peaster can differ from the 76088 normal.