Midland, TX 79703 Frost Dates
Midland, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 202 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Midland 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Midland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Midland's last frost
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Midland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 239 frost-free days, Midland places 8,740 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,946 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79703's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Midland's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Midland's dates instead of trusting one.