Tioga, TX 76271 Frost Dates
76271, near Tioga, TX: the frost window
Around 03/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 197 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Tioga, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tioga'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 Tioga'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.
Tioga against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 251 frost-free days, Tioga places 7,355 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,634 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76271: local microclimates, on what one yard in Tioga can differ from the 76271 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Tioga's frost date answer different questions.