Childress, TX 79259 Frost Dates
79259, near Childress, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 222 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 Childress, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Childress'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 Childress's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 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.
Childress against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Childress places 12,251 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,273 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79259: local microclimates, on what one yard in Childress can differ from the 79259 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Childress's frost date answer different questions.