Odessa, TX 79758 Frost Dates
Odessa, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/19, about 203 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
Odessa 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Odessa's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Odessa's last frost
03/19 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 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Odessa against the rest of the dataset
Odessa's growing season runs about 235 days, ranking 9,553 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,017 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79758's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Odessa's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Odessa's dates instead of trusting one.