Watauga, TX 76148 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Watauga, TX?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/05, about 189 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/24, about 264 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Watauga, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 13 weeks of growing season left in Watauga before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Watauga's last frost
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Watauga compares
At roughly 264 frost-free days, Watauga places 6,049 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,097 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8b and Watauga's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Watauga's dates instead of trusting one.