Abilene, TX 79605 Frost Dates
79605, near Abilene, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/20, roughly 204 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
Abilene 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
Abilene'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
03/20 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.
Abilene against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Abilene places 9,229 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,006 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79605: the frost range, on how to read the range around Abilene's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Abilene can differ from the 79605 normal.