Plains, TX 79355 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Plains, TX, ZIP 79355
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 200 frost-free days later.
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 Plains, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Plains has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Plains's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Plains compares
At roughly 200 frost-free days, Plains places 17,835 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,446 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Plains's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Plains can differ from the 79355 normal.