Briaroaks, TX 76097 Frost Dates
76097, near Briaroaks, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/14, roughly 198 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
Briaroaks 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
Briaroaks's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Briaroaks's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Briaroaks against the rest of the dataset
About 245 days separate Briaroaks's last and first frost, putting it 8,063 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,827 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76097: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Briaroaks's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Briaroaks's dates instead of trusting one.