Roaring Springs, TX 79231 Frost Dates
79231, near Roaring Springs, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 213 days after the last spring frost.
Roaring Springs 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
Roaring Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Roaring Springs's last frost
04/05 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 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Roaring Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 213 frost-free days, Roaring Springs places 14,545 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,373 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79231: local microclimates, on what one yard in Roaring Springs can differ from the 79231 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Roaring Springs's frost date answer different questions.