Town of Pecos, TX 79770 Frost Dates
Town of Pecos, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/18, about 202 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.
Town of Pecos 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 Town of Pecos's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Town of Pecos'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 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Town of Pecos against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 239 frost-free days, Town of Pecos places 8,799 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,951 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79770's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Town of Pecos's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Town of Pecos can differ from the 79770 normal.