Lubbock, TX 79452 Frost Dates
79452, near Lubbock, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Lubbock 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
Lubbock's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Lubbock's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lubbock against the rest of the dataset
Lubbock's growing season runs about 210 days, ranking 14,920 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,404 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79452: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Lubbock's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lubbock's dates instead of trusting one.