Whitesboro, TX 76273 Frost Dates
Whitesboro, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/14, about 198 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Whitesboro 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Whitesboro's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Whitesboro's last frost
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.
Whitesboro against the rest of the dataset
About 250 days separate Whitesboro's last and first frost, putting it 7,529 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,684 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76273's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Whitesboro's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Whitesboro can differ from the 76273 normal.