Bellaire, TX 77081 Frost Dates
77081, near Bellaire, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/02, roughly 158 days out. 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 Bellaire 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
Bellaire's growing season runs out in roughly 15 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Bellaire's last frost
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.
Bellaire against the rest of the dataset
About 318 days separate Bellaire's last and first frost, putting it 3,347 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 241 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77081: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bellaire can differ from the 77081 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Bellaire's frost date answer different questions.