Odessa, TX 79769 Frost Dates
Odessa, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/15, roughly 199 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 242 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
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Odessa against the rest of the dataset
About 242 days separate Odessa's last and first frost, putting it 8,343 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,867 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79769's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Odessa's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Odessa can differ from the 79769 normal.