Blanket, TX 76890 Frost Dates
76890, near Blanket, TX: the frost window
Around 03/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 196 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 249 days after the last spring frost.
Blanket 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
Blanket's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Blanket against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 249 frost-free days, Blanket places 7,659 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,730 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76890: the frost range, on how to read the range around Blanket's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Blanket can differ from the 76890 normal.