Marlin, TX 76661 Frost Dates
Marlin, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 205 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Marlin 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 Marlin's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Marlin's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Marlin against the rest of the dataset
About 234 days separate Marlin's last and first frost, putting it 9,728 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,051 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76661's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Marlin's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Marlin's dates instead of trusting one.