Chillicothe, TX 79247 Frost Dates
79247, near Chillicothe, TX: the frost window
Around 03/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 211 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
Chillicothe 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
Chillicothe'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 Chillicothe's last frost
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Chillicothe against the rest of the dataset
About 225 days separate Chillicothe's last and first frost, putting it 11,464 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,260 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79247: local microclimates, on what one yard in Chillicothe can differ from the 79247 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Chillicothe's frost date answer different questions.