Tahoka, TX 79373 Frost Dates
Tahoka, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Tahoka, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Tahoka's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/02 isn't a guarantee
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tahoka against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 220 frost-free days, Tahoka places 12,824 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,303 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79373's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Tahoka's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Tahoka can differ from the 79373 normal.