Pilot Point, TX 76258 Frost Dates
76258, near Pilot Point, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/13, roughly 197 days out. 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 Pilot Point 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
Pilot Point'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 Pilot Point'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.
Pilot Point against the rest of the dataset
Pilot Point's growing season runs about 251 days, ranking 7,311 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,611 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76258: the frost range, on how to read the range around Pilot Point's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Pilot Point can differ from the 76258 normal.