Valley Mills, TX 76689 Frost Dates
Valley Mills, 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.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Valley Mills, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Valley Mills'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
03/15 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.
Valley Mills against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 243 frost-free days, Valley Mills places 8,313 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,857 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76689's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Valley Mills's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Valley Mills's dates instead of trusting one.