Nocona, TX 76255 Frost Dates
76255, 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.
Nocona sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
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.
Why 03/24 isn't a guarantee
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
Nocona's growing season runs about 229 days, ranking 10,591 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,169 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76255: 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 76255 normal.