Bryson, TX 76427 Frost Dates
76427, near Bryson, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
Bryson 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
Bryson's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
04/01 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 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bryson against the rest of the dataset
Bryson's growing season runs about 220 days, ranking 12,886 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,305 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76427: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bryson's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bryson can differ from the 76427 normal.