Missouri City, TX 77053 Frost Dates
77053, near Missouri City, TX: the frost window
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.
Missouri City 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
Missouri City'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.
Missouri City against the rest of the dataset
Missouri City's growing season runs about 330 days, ranking 2,998 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 148 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77053: local microclimates, on what one yard in Missouri City can differ from the 77053 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Missouri City's frost date answer different questions.