Dickens, TX 79220 Frost Dates
Dickens, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Dickens sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Dickens's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/06 isn't a guarantee
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dickens against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Dickens places 15,428 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,421 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79220's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Dickens's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Dickens can differ from the 79220 normal.