Tuscola, TX 79541 Frost Dates
79541, near Tuscola, 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 11/04, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Tuscola in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tuscola's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Tuscola's last frost
04/03 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 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tuscola against the rest of the dataset
About 217 days separate Tuscola's last and first frost, putting it 13,569 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,330 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79541: local microclimates, on what one yard in Tuscola can differ from the 79541 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Tuscola's frost date answer different questions.