Paint Rock, TX 76866 Frost Dates
Paint Rock, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 222 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 Paint Rock, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 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
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Paint Rock against the rest of the dataset
About 222 days separate Paint Rock's last and first frost, putting it 12,353 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,286 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76866's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Paint Rock can differ from the 76866 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Paint Rock's frost date answer different questions.