Fort Worth, TX 76095 Frost Dates
Fort Worth, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/05, about 189 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 264 days after the last spring frost.
Fort Worth 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 13 weeks until Fort Worth's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fort Worth's last frost
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort Worth against the rest of the dataset
About 264 days separate Fort Worth's last and first frost, putting it 6,011 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,061 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76095's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Fort Worth's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Fort Worth's dates instead of trusting one.