Paint Rock, TX 76862 Frost Dates
Paint Rock, 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 11/12, roughly 239 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 Paint Rock, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Paint Rock's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Paint Rock's last frost
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.
Paint Rock against the rest of the dataset
Paint Rock's growing season runs about 239 days, ranking 8,902 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,975 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76862's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Paint Rock's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Paint Rock can differ from the 76862 normal.