Stagecoach, TX 77362 Frost Dates
77362, near Stagecoach, TX: the frost window
Around 02/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 175 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/03, roughly 290 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Stagecoach 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
Stagecoach's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stagecoach against the rest of the dataset
Stagecoach's growing season runs about 290 days, ranking 4,534 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 667 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77362: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Stagecoach's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Stagecoach's dates instead of trusting one.