Denton, TX 76202 Frost Dates
76202, near Denton, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/13, about 197 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
Denton 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
Denton's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Denton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 251 frost-free days, Denton places 7,274 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,585 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76202: the frost range, on how to read the range around Denton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Denton can differ from the 76202 normal.