Abernathy, TX 79311 Frost Dates
Abernathy, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Abernathy 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Abernathy's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Abernathy's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Abernathy against the rest of the dataset
About 204 days separate Abernathy's last and first frost, putting it 16,612 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,426 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79311's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Abernathy can differ from the 79311 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Abernathy's frost date answer different questions.