Southside Place, TX 77051 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Southside Place, TX, ZIP 77051
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Southside Place in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9b around Southside 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 Southside Place compares
About 330 days separate Southside Place's last and first frost, putting it 3,054 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 178 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Southside Place can differ from the 77051 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Southside Place's frost date answer different questions.