Windom, TX 75492 Frost Dates
Windom, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 247 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Windom 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Windom's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Windom's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Windom against the rest of the dataset
About 247 days separate Windom's last and first frost, putting it 7,892 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,788 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75492's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Windom can differ from the 75492 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Windom's frost date answer different questions.