Midland, TX 79701 Frost Dates
79701, near Midland, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Midland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Midland's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Midland's last frost
03/26 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.
Midland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Midland places 11,122 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,225 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79701: the frost range, on how to read the range around Midland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Midland can differ from the 79701 normal.