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Clifton, TX 76634 Frost Dates

Clifton, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 8b

Around 03/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 199 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 243 days after the last spring frost.

Clifton sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 11 weeks until Clifton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Clifton's last frost

03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Clifton against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 243 frost-free days, Clifton places 8,299 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,848 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 76634's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Clifton can differ from the 76634 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Clifton's frost date answer different questions.