Dumas, TX 79058 Frost Dates
Dumas, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 187 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 Dumas, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Dumas's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Dumas's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/05 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.
Dumas against the rest of the dataset
Dumas's growing season runs about 187 days, ranking 22,311 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,506 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79058's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Dumas can differ from the 79058 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Dumas's frost date answer different questions.