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Krum, TX 76267 Frost Dates

76267, near Krum, TX: the frost window

Zone 8a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/24, roughly 208 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.

Krum 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

Krum'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.

The actual range around Krum's last frost

03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Krum against the rest of the dataset

About 227 days separate Krum's last and first frost, putting it 11,004 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,215 of 2,558.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 76267: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Krum's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Krum's dates instead of trusting one.