El Paso, TX 79903 Frost Dates
El Paso, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 261 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts El Paso in Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 12 weeks until El Paso's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around El Paso's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
El Paso against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 261 frost-free days, El Paso places 6,252 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,157 of 2,558.
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Before leaning on 79903's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and El Paso's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around El Paso's dates instead of trusting one.