Prairie View, TX 77446 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Prairie View, TX?
Around 03/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 191 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/19, about 259 frost-free days later.
Prairie View sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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.
What to do before the first frost
About 12 weeks of growing season left in Prairie View before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Prairie View's last frost
03/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/31 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Prairie View compares
At roughly 259 frost-free days, Prairie View places 6,577 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,387 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 9a and Prairie View's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Prairie View's dates instead of trusting one.