Booker, TX 79005 Frost Dates
Booker, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/15, roughly 170 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Booker, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Booker's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Booker's last frost
04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Booker against the rest of the dataset
Booker's growing season runs about 170 days, ranking 29,092 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,552 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79005's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Booker's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Booker can differ from the 79005 normal.