FrostDateCheck

Humble, TX 77073 Frost Dates

Humble, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 9b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/13, about 169 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/09, roughly 300 days after the last spring frost.

Humble 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

With roughly 15 weeks until Humble's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Humble's last frost

02/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Humble against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 300 frost-free days, Humble places 4,095 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 425 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 77073's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Humble's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Humble can differ from the 77073 normal.