Sterling City, TX 76958 Frost Dates
76958, near Sterling City, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 211 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 Sterling City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Sterling City's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sterling City against the rest of the dataset
About 211 days separate Sterling City's last and first frost, putting it 14,812 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,393 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76958: the frost range, on how to read the range around Sterling City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Sterling City can differ from the 76958 normal.