Quitaque, TX 79255 Frost Dates
Quitaque, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Quitaque, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Quitaque's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Quitaque against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 211 frost-free days, Quitaque places 14,874 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,396 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79255's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Quitaque can differ from the 79255 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Quitaque's frost date answer different questions.