Cut and Shoot, TX 77305 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Cut and Shoot, TX?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/11, roughly 195 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/19, about 253 frost-free days later.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Cut and Shoot, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 12 weeks of growing season left in Cut and Shoot before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Cut and Shoot's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cut and Shoot compares
Cut and Shoot's growing season runs about 253 days, ranking 7,168 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,554 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Cut and Shoot can differ from the 77305 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 9a and Cut and Shoot's frost date answer different questions.