Kress, TX 79052 Frost Dates
79052, near Kress, TX: the frost window
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 200 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Kress in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Kress'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.
The actual range around Kress's last frost
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.
Kress against the rest of the dataset
Kress's growing season runs about 200 days, ranking 17,870 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,449 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79052: the frost range, on how to read the range around Kress's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Kress can differ from the 79052 normal.