Needville, TX 77461 Frost Dates
Needville, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/15, about 171 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/06, roughly 297 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Needville in Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 14 weeks until Needville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Needville'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.
Needville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 297 frost-free days, Needville places 4,225 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 497 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77461's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Needville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Needville can differ from the 77461 normal.