Archer City, TX 76351 Frost Dates
76351, near Archer City, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/25, roughly 209 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Archer City 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
Archer City's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Archer City against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Archer City's last and first frost, putting it 10,217 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,133 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76351: the frost range, on how to read the range around Archer City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Archer City can differ from the 76351 normal.