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Wolfforth, TX 79464 Frost Dates

79464, near Wolfforth, TX: the frost window

Zone 7b

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.

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 Wolfforth, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Wolfforth'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.

The actual range around Wolfforth's last frost

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.

Wolfforth against the rest of the dataset

About 233 days separate Wolfforth's last and first frost, putting it 9,885 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,096 of 2,558.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 79464: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Wolfforth's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Wolfforth's dates instead of trusting one.