Iredell, TX 76649 Frost Dates
Iredell, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 208 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 229 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Iredell 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 10 weeks until Iredell's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Iredell's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Iredell against the rest of the dataset
About 229 days separate Iredell's last and first frost, putting it 10,656 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,180 of 2,558.
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Before leaning on 76649's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Iredell can differ from the 76649 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Iredell's frost date answer different questions.