Meridian, TX 76665 Frost Dates
Meridian, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/15, roughly 199 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 243 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Meridian 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 11 weeks until Meridian's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Meridian's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Meridian against the rest of the dataset
About 243 days separate Meridian's last and first frost, putting it 8,311 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,855 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76665's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Meridian can differ from the 76665 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Meridian's frost date answer different questions.