Buffalo Gap, TX 79508 Frost Dates
Buffalo Gap, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/20, about 204 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
Buffalo Gap 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 11 weeks until Buffalo Gap's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/20 isn't a guarantee
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Buffalo Gap against the rest of the dataset
About 236 days separate Buffalo Gap's last and first frost, putting it 9,502 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,013 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79508's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Buffalo Gap's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Buffalo Gap can differ from the 79508 normal.