Stafford, TX 77031 Frost Dates
Stafford, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/02, about 158 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/11, roughly 318 days after the last spring frost.
Stafford 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
With roughly 15 weeks until Stafford's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stafford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 318 frost-free days, Stafford places 3,341 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 235 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77031's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Stafford's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Stafford's dates instead of trusting one.