Killeen, TX 76549 Frost Dates
Killeen, 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.
Killeen sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
With roughly 12 weeks until Killeen's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Killeen'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.
Killeen against the rest of the dataset
Killeen's growing season runs about 247 days, ranking 7,773 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,744 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76549's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Killeen's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Killeen's dates instead of trusting one.