Haltom City, TX 76117 Frost Dates
76117, near Haltom City, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/05, roughly 189 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 264 days after the last spring frost.
Haltom City 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
Haltom City's growing season runs out in roughly 13 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 Haltom City'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.
Haltom City against the rest of the dataset
Haltom City's growing season runs about 264 days, ranking 6,044 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,094 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76117: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Haltom City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Haltom City's dates instead of trusting one.