Clint, TX 79836 Frost Dates
79836, near Clint, TX: the frost window
Around 03/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 205 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Clint, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Clint's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clint against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Clint places 11,039 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,219 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79836: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Clint's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Clint's dates instead of trusting one.