El Paso, TX 79915 Frost Dates
Frost dates for El Paso, TX, ZIP 79915
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 261 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around El Paso has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around El Paso's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How El Paso compares
At roughly 261 frost-free days, El Paso places 6,257 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,162 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around El Paso's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in El Paso can differ from the 79915 normal.