Missouri City, TX 77459 Frost Dates
Missouri City, TX: when does the frost end?
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.
Missouri City 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
With roughly 14 weeks until Missouri City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Missouri City's last frost
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.
Missouri City against the rest of the dataset
About 297 days separate Missouri City's last and first frost, putting it 4,218 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 490 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77459's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Missouri City can differ from the 77459 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Missouri City's frost date answer different questions.