Town of Pecos, TX 79772 Frost Dates
79772, near Town of Pecos, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/18, roughly 202 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Town of Pecos, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Town of Pecos's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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 8,800 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,952 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79772: local microclimates, on what one yard in Town of Pecos can differ from the 79772 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Town of Pecos's frost date answer different questions.