West University Place, TX 77027 Frost Dates
77027, near West University Place, TX: the frost window
Around 01/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 155 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/28, roughly 330 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 West University Place, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
West University Place's growing season runs out in roughly 17 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West University Place against the rest of the dataset
About 330 days separate West University Place's last and first frost, putting it 3,025 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 164 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77027: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and West University Place's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around West University Place's dates instead of trusting one.