Follett, TX 79034 Frost Dates
79034, near Follett, TX: the frost window
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.
Follett sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Follett's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Follett against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 170 frost-free days, Follett places 29,213 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,555 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79034: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Follett's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Follett's dates instead of trusting one.