Stafford, TX 77071 Frost Dates
Stafford, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 02/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 158 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/11, roughly 318 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Stafford in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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 3,342 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 236 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77071's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Stafford's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Stafford can differ from the 77071 normal.