Tolar, TX 76433 Frost Dates
76433, near Tolar, TX: the frost window
Around 03/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 213 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Tolar, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tolar'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
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.
Tolar against the rest of the dataset
Tolar's growing season runs about 226 days, ranking 11,228 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,239 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76433: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Tolar's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Tolar's dates instead of trusting one.