Bruceville-Eddy, TX 76630 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Bruceville-Eddy, TX, ZIP 76630
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/09, roughly 193 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 256 frost-free days later.
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 Bruceville-Eddy, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Bruceville-Eddy has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/04 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Bruceville-Eddy compares
About 256 days separate Bruceville-Eddy's last and first frost, putting it 6,838 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,495 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Bruceville-Eddy's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Bruceville-Eddy's dates instead of trusting one.