Southmayd, TX 76268 Frost Dates
76268, near Southmayd, TX: the frost window
Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
Southmayd 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
Southmayd'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.
Why 03/14 isn't a guarantee
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Southmayd against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 250 frost-free days, Southmayd places 7,561 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,693 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76268: local microclimates, on what one yard in Southmayd can differ from the 76268 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Southmayd's frost date answer different questions.