Frost, TX 76641 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Frost, TX, ZIP 76641
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/21, roughly 205 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/10, about 235 frost-free days later.
Frost 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Frost has about 11 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.
The actual range around Frost's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/08 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Frost compares
Frost's growing season runs about 235 days, ranking 9,644 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,033 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Frost's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Frost can differ from the 76641 normal.