Ingram, TX 78631 Frost Dates
78631, near Ingram, TX: the frost window
Around 04/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 218 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, 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 Ingram, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ingram'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.
Why 04/03 isn't a guarantee
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ingram against the rest of the dataset
About 211 days separate Ingram's last and first frost, putting it 14,785 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,389 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78631: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Ingram's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Ingram's dates instead of trusting one.