Stephenville, TX 76401 Frost Dates
Stephenville, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/29, roughly 213 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Stephenville in Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 10 weeks until Stephenville'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
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 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.
Stephenville against the rest of the dataset
About 226 days separate Stephenville's last and first frost, putting it 11,159 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,234 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76401's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Stephenville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Stephenville can differ from the 76401 normal.