Gruver, TX 79040 Frost Dates
79040, near Gruver, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 186 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 Gruver, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gruver'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gruver against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 186 frost-free days, Gruver places 22,880 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,517 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79040: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gruver's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gruver can differ from the 79040 normal.