Fort Worth, TX 76244 Frost Dates
Fort Worth, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 189 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 264 days after the last spring frost.
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 Fort Worth, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Fort Worth's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/05 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 264 frost-free days, Fort Worth places 6,041 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,091 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76244's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Fort Worth can differ from the 76244 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Fort Worth's frost date answer different questions.