Canyon, TX 79119 Frost Dates
Canyon, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/22, about 237 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Canyon 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
With roughly 8 weeks until Canyon's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Canyon's last frost
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Canyon against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Canyon places 24,089 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,520 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79119's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Canyon can differ from the 79119 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Canyon's frost date answer different questions.