Meadow, TX 79345 Frost Dates
Meadow, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/24, roughly 208 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
Meadow 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 11 weeks until Meadow's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Meadow's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 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.
Meadow against the rest of the dataset
About 233 days separate Meadow's last and first frost, putting it 9,958 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,107 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79345's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Meadow can differ from the 79345 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Meadow's frost date answer different questions.