Farwell, TX 79325 Frost Dates
79325, near Farwell, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/23, about 238 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 180 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Farwell, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Farwell's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/09 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.
Farwell against the rest of the dataset
Farwell's growing season runs about 180 days, ranking 24,922 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,541 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79325: the frost range, on how to read the range around Farwell's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Farwell can differ from the 79325 normal.