Turkey, TX 79261 Frost Dates
Turkey, 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 Turkey, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Turkey's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Turkey's last frost
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.
Turkey against the rest of the dataset
About 211 days separate Turkey's last and first frost, putting it 14,878 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,398 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79261's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Turkey can differ from the 79261 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Turkey's frost date answer different questions.