Copperas Cove, TX 76544 Frost Dates
Copperas Cove, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 247 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 Copperas Cove, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Copperas Cove's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Copperas Cove's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Copperas Cove against the rest of the dataset
Copperas Cove's growing season runs about 247 days, ranking 7,781 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,746 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76544's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Copperas Cove's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Copperas Cove's dates instead of trusting one.