Cut and Shoot, TX 77306 Frost Dates
Cut and Shoot, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/11, roughly 195 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 253 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Cut and Shoot's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cut and Shoot's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cut and Shoot against the rest of the dataset
Cut and Shoot's growing season runs about 253 days, ranking 7,169 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,555 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77306's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cut and Shoot can differ from the 77306 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Cut and Shoot's frost date answer different questions.