Rice, TX 75105 Frost Dates
75105, near Rice, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/07, about 191 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/23, roughly 261 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 Rice, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Rice'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.
Why 03/07 isn't a guarantee
03/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rice against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 261 frost-free days, Rice places 6,432 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,303 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75105: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Rice's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Rice's dates instead of trusting one.