Thorndale, TX 76577 Frost Dates
Thorndale, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/08, roughly 192 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 257 days after the last spring frost.
Thorndale sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Thorndale's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Thorndale's last frost
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Thorndale against the rest of the dataset
Thorndale's growing season runs about 257 days, ranking 6,721 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,445 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76577's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Thorndale's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Thorndale's dates instead of trusting one.