Roanoke, TX 76262 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Roanoke, TX, ZIP 76262
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/12, roughly 196 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/17, about 249 frost-free days later.
Roanoke sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Roanoke has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Roanoke's last frost
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Roanoke compares
About 249 days separate Roanoke's last and first frost, putting it 7,616 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,710 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Roanoke's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Roanoke can differ from the 76262 normal.