Mason, TX 76842 Frost Dates
Mason, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/18, roughly 202 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
Mason sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Mason'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
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 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.
Mason against the rest of the dataset
Mason's growing season runs about 241 days, ranking 8,561 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,903 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76842's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Mason's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Mason's dates instead of trusting one.