Mobeetie, TX 79061 Frost Dates
79061, near Mobeetie, TX: the frost window
Around 04/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 225 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mobeetie 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
Mobeetie'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 04/10 isn't a guarantee
04/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mobeetie against the rest of the dataset
About 201 days separate Mobeetie's last and first frost, putting it 17,691 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,440 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79061: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mobeetie's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mobeetie can differ from the 79061 normal.