Snyder, TX 79550 Frost Dates
79550, near Snyder, TX: the frost window
Around 03/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 211 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Snyder in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Snyder'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Snyder against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Snyder places 10,996 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,211 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79550: the frost range, on how to read the range around Snyder's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Snyder can differ from the 79550 normal.