Early, TX 76803 Frost Dates
76803, near Early, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/26, about 210 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Early, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Early'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Early against the rest of the dataset
Early's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,410 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,153 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76803: the frost range, on how to read the range around Early's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Early can differ from the 76803 normal.