Wichita Falls, TX 76309 Frost Dates
Wichita Falls, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Wichita Falls, not a forecast for this year.
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 10,693 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,186 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 76309's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Wichita Falls can differ from the 76309 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Wichita Falls's frost date answer different questions.