Graford, TX 76449 Frost Dates
76449, near Graford, TX: the frost window
Around 03/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 207 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Graford, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Graford's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Graford's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Graford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 231 frost-free days, Graford places 10,239 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,135 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76449: local microclimates, on what one yard in Graford can differ from the 76449 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Graford's frost date answer different questions.