West University Place, TX 77030 Frost Dates
77030, near West University Place, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/30, roughly 155 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/28, roughly 330 days after the last spring frost.
West University Place sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
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.
The actual range around West University Place's last frost
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
West University Place's growing season runs about 330 days, ranking 3,026 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 165 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77030: 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.