Texline, TX 73937 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Texline, TX, ZIP 73937
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 170 frost-free days later.
Zone 6b (-5 to 0°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 Texline, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 6b around Texline has about 7 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Texline compares
About 170 days separate Texline's last and first frost, putting it 29,191 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,553 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Texline's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Texline can differ from the 73937 normal.