Lefors, TX 79054 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Lefors, TX, ZIP 79054
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/10, roughly 225 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/30, about 201 frost-free days later.
Lefors 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Lefors has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Lefors's last frost
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lefors compares
At roughly 201 frost-free days, Lefors places 17,641 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,438 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Lefors's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Lefors can differ from the 79054 normal.