Megargel, TX 76370 Frost Dates
Megargel, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
Megargel 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Megargel's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Megargel against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Megargel places 12,360 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,289 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76370's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Megargel can differ from the 76370 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Megargel's frost date answer different questions.