Socorro, TX 79949 Frost Dates
79949, near Socorro, TX: the frost window
Around 03/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 186 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 261 days after the last spring frost.
Socorro sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Socorro's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Socorro'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.
Socorro against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 261 frost-free days, Socorro places 6,290 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,190 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79949: local microclimates, on what one yard in Socorro can differ from the 79949 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Socorro's frost date answer different questions.