Trent, TX 79561 Frost Dates
79561, near Trent, TX: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 215 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 Trent, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Trent'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 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.
Trent against the rest of the dataset
Trent's growing season runs about 215 days, ranking 14,187 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,353 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79561: the frost range, on how to read the range around Trent's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Trent can differ from the 79561 normal.