Franklin, TX 77856 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Franklin, TX, ZIP 77856
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/21, roughly 205 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 234 frost-free days later.
Franklin sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 9a around Franklin has about 10 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.
The actual range around Franklin's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Franklin compares
About 234 days separate Franklin's last and first frost, putting it 9,755 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,057 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Franklin's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Franklin's dates instead of trusting one.