Wichita Falls, TX 76301 Frost Dates
Wichita Falls, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
Wichita Falls 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Wichita Falls's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Wichita Falls's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wichita Falls against the rest of the dataset
Wichita Falls's growing season runs about 228 days, ranking 10,690 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,183 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76301's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Wichita Falls's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Wichita Falls can differ from the 76301 normal.