Grey Forest, TX 78023 Frost Dates
78023, near Grey Forest, TX: the frost window
Around 02/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 174 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/09, roughly 296 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Grey Forest, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Grey Forest's growing season runs out in roughly 15 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Grey Forest's last frost
02/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Grey Forest against the rest of the dataset
About 296 days separate Grey Forest's last and first frost, putting it 4,248 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 517 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78023: the frost range, on how to read the range around Grey Forest's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Grey Forest can differ from the 78023 normal.