Hale Center, TX 79041 Frost Dates
79041, near Hale Center, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Hale Center, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hale Center's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/11 isn't a guarantee
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hale Center against the rest of the dataset
About 200 days separate Hale Center's last and first frost, putting it 17,812 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,443 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79041: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hale Center's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hale Center can differ from the 79041 normal.