Nocona, TX 76251 Frost Dates
76251, near Nocona, TX: the frost window
Around 03/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 208 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 229 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Nocona in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Nocona's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Nocona against the rest of the dataset
About 229 days separate Nocona's last and first frost, putting it 10,590 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,168 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76251: the frost range, on how to read the range around Nocona's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Nocona can differ from the 76251 normal.