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West University Place, TX 77046 Frost Dates

Frost dates for West University Place, TX, ZIP 77046

Zone 9b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/30, roughly 155 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/28, about 330 frost-free days later.

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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 9b around West University Place has about 17 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

How much risk comes with planting early here

01/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 12/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How West University Place compares

At roughly 330 frost-free days, West University Place places 3,027 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 166 of 2,558.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around West University Place's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in West University Place can differ from the 77046 normal.