Morton, TX 79314 Frost Dates
Morton, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/25, about 240 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/19, roughly 177 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 Morton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 7 weeks until Morton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Morton's last frost
04/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Morton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 177 frost-free days, Morton places 26,154 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,542 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79314's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Morton can differ from the 79314 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Morton's frost date answer different questions.