Hedley, TX 79237 Frost Dates
79237, near Hedley, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hedley 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
Hedley'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hedley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 215 frost-free days, Hedley places 14,190 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,354 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79237: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hedley's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hedley can differ from the 79237 normal.