Fort Worth, TX 76185 Frost Dates
76185, near Fort Worth, TX: the frost window
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
Fort Worth'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 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
Fort Worth's growing season runs about 264 days, ranking 6,032 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,082 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76185: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fort Worth can differ from the 76185 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Fort Worth's frost date answer different questions.