Lipan, TX 76462 Frost Dates
76462, near Lipan, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 228 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 Lipan, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lipan'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.
Why 03/24 isn't a guarantee
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lipan against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Lipan places 10,897 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,200 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76462: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lipan can differ from the 76462 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Lipan's frost date answer different questions.