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Toyah, TX 79785 Frost Dates

Toyah, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 8a

Around 03/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 202 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Toyah in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 11 weeks until Toyah's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Toyah'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.

Toyah against the rest of the dataset

About 239 days separate Toyah's last and first frost, putting it 8,914 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,980 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 79785's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Toyah's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Toyah's dates instead of trusting one.