FrostDateCheck

Texline, TX 79087 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Texline, TX?

Zone 6b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/27, roughly 242 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/17, about 170 frost-free days later.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Texline in Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

What to do before the first frost

About 7 weeks of growing season left in Texline before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Texline's last frost

04/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 04/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 05/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Texline compares

At roughly 170 frost-free days, Texline places 29,192 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,554 of 2,558.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Texline's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Texline can differ from the 79087 normal.