Huntsville, TX 77348 Frost Dates
Huntsville, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/26, roughly 272 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Huntsville in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
With roughly 13 weeks until Huntsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Huntsville's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Huntsville against the rest of the dataset
About 272 days separate Huntsville's last and first frost, putting it 5,326 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 979 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77348's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Huntsville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Huntsville can differ from the 77348 normal.