Brownwood, TX 76801 Frost Dates
76801, near Brownwood, TX: the frost window
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Brownwood in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Brownwood's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Brownwood's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brownwood against the rest of the dataset
About 230 days separate Brownwood's last and first frost, putting it 10,332 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,150 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76801: the frost range, on how to read the range around Brownwood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Brownwood can differ from the 76801 normal.