Floydada, TX 79221 Frost Dates
Floydada, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Floydada in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 9 weeks until Floydada's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Floydada's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Floydada against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Floydada places 15,253 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,414 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79221's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Floydada's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Floydada's dates instead of trusting one.