Gatesville, TX 76598 Frost Dates
Gatesville, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 199 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 247 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gatesville in Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
With roughly 12 weeks until Gatesville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Gatesville's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gatesville against the rest of the dataset
Gatesville's growing season runs about 247 days, ranking 7,808 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,760 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76598's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Gatesville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Gatesville can differ from the 76598 normal.