Friona, TX 79035 Frost Dates
79035, near Friona, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/23, roughly 182 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 Friona, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Friona's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/22 isn't a guarantee
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Friona against the rest of the dataset
About 182 days separate Friona's last and first frost, putting it 24,151 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,525 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79035: the frost range, on how to read the range around Friona's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Friona can differ from the 79035 normal.