Ranger, TX 76470 Frost Dates
76470, near Ranger, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Ranger 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
Ranger'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 Ranger'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.
Ranger against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 231 frost-free days, Ranger places 10,207 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,129 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76470: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ranger can differ from the 76470 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Ranger's frost date answer different questions.