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Weatherford, TX 76485 Frost Dates

76485, near Weatherford, TX: the frost window

Zone 8a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/25, roughly 209 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Weatherford in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Weatherford'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.

The actual range around Weatherford's last frost

03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Weatherford against the rest of the dataset

Weatherford's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,318 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,148 of 2,558.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 76485: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Weatherford's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Weatherford's dates instead of trusting one.