Van Horn, TX 79851 Frost Dates
Van Horn, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 03/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 213 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 221 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 Van Horn, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Van Horn's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Van Horn's last frost
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Van Horn against the rest of the dataset
About 221 days separate Van Horn's last and first frost, putting it 12,527 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,293 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79851's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Van Horn's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Van Horn's dates instead of trusting one.