Centerville, TX 77850 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Centerville, TX, ZIP 77850
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/14, about 243 frost-free days later.
Centerville 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Centerville has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/23 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/05 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Centerville compares
Centerville's growing season runs about 243 days, ranking 8,314 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,858 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Centerville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Centerville's dates instead of trusting one.