Denton, TX 76206 Frost Dates
76206, near Denton, TX: the frost window
Around 03/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 197 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Denton in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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.
The actual range around Denton's last frost
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 7,277 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,588 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76206: local microclimates, on what one yard in Denton can differ from the 76206 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Denton's frost date answer different questions.