Wells, TX 75969 Frost Dates
Wells, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/11, roughly 195 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 247 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Wells, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Wells's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wells's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wells against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 247 frost-free days, Wells places 7,856 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,778 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 75969's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wells can differ from the 75969 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Wells's frost date answer different questions.