McGregor, TX 76657 Frost Dates
McGregor, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/09, roughly 193 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 256 days after the last spring frost.
McGregor 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
With roughly 12 weeks until McGregor's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
McGregor against the rest of the dataset
About 256 days separate McGregor's last and first frost, putting it 6,813 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,482 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76657's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and McGregor's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around McGregor's dates instead of trusting one.