Houston, TX 77202 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Houston, TX, ZIP 77202
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/13, roughly 169 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/09, about 300 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Houston 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 Houston has about 15 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.
The actual range around Houston's last frost
02/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Houston compares
About 300 days separate Houston's last and first frost, putting it 3,993 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 325 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Houston's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Houston can differ from the 77202 normal.