Needville, TX 77430 Frost Dates
77430, near Needville, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/15, roughly 171 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/06, roughly 297 days after the last spring frost.
Needville sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Needville'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
02/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/13 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.
Needville against the rest of the dataset
Needville's growing season runs about 297 days, ranking 4,223 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 495 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77430: the frost range, on how to read the range around Needville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Needville can differ from the 77430 normal.