Cross Plains, TX 76828 Frost Dates
76828, near Cross Plains, 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 Cross Plains, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cross Plains'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.
Why 03/26 isn't a guarantee
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.
Cross Plains against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Cross Plains places 10,445 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,157 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76828: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Cross Plains's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cross Plains's dates instead of trusting one.