Socorro, TX 88538 Frost Dates
88538, near Socorro, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 261 days after the last spring frost.
Socorro sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Socorro's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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 Socorro's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Socorro against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 261 frost-free days, Socorro places 6,332 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,232 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 88538: the frost range, on how to read the range around Socorro's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Socorro can differ from the 88538 normal.