Goldsmith, TX 79776 Frost Dates
79776, near Goldsmith, TX: the frost window
Around 03/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 201 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 238 days after the last spring frost.
Goldsmith sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Goldsmith's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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
03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Goldsmith against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 238 frost-free days, Goldsmith places 9,044 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,994 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79776: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Goldsmith's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Goldsmith's dates instead of trusting one.