Midland, TX 79712 Frost Dates
79712, near Midland, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/26, about 210 days from today. 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
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 11,130 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,233 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79712: local microclimates, on what one yard in Midland can differ from the 79712 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Midland's frost date answer different questions.