Lubbock, TX 79412 Frost Dates
79412, near Lubbock, TX: the frost window
Around 03/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 208 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lubbock in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lubbock's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/24 isn't a guarantee
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.
Lubbock against the rest of the dataset
About 233 days separate Lubbock's last and first frost, putting it 9,830 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,084 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79412: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lubbock's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lubbock can differ from the 79412 normal.