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Seminole, TX 79360 Frost Dates

Seminole, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 8a

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 219 days after the last spring frost.

Seminole sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 10 weeks until Seminole's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Seminole's last frost

04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Seminole against the rest of the dataset

About 219 days separate Seminole's last and first frost, putting it 13,001 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,312 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 79360's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Seminole's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Seminole's dates instead of trusting one.