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Brookside Village, TX 77033 Frost Dates

77033, near Brookside Village, TX: the frost window

Zone 9b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/30, about 155 days from today. 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 Brookside Village, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Brookside Village'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.

Brookside Village against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 330 frost-free days, Brookside Village places 3,056 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 180 of 2,558.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 77033: local microclimates, on what one yard in Brookside Village can differ from the 77033 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Brookside Village's frost date answer different questions.