Lake Bridgeport, TX 76426 Frost Dates
Lake Bridgeport, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 219 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lake Bridgeport 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 10 weeks until Lake Bridgeport'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
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Bridgeport against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 219 frost-free days, Lake Bridgeport places 13,100 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,324 of 2,558.
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Before leaning on 76426's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lake Bridgeport can differ from the 76426 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Lake Bridgeport's frost date answer different questions.