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Midland, TX 79710 Frost Dates

Midland, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 8b

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.

Midland sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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

With roughly 10 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

03/26 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

About 226 days separate Midland's last and first frost, putting it 11,128 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,231 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 79710's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Midland's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Midland can differ from the 79710 normal.