Bardwell, TX 76623 Frost Dates
76623, near Bardwell, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
Bardwell 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
Bardwell's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Bardwell's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bardwell against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 245 frost-free days, Bardwell places 8,058 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,824 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76623: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bardwell's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bardwell can differ from the 76623 normal.