Jayton, TX 79518 Frost Dates
Jayton, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 209 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 Jayton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Jayton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Jayton's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jayton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Jayton places 15,374 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,418 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79518's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Jayton's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Jayton's dates instead of trusting one.