Pattison, TX 77466 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pattison, TX, ZIP 77466
Around 02/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 165 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/13, about 305 frost-free days later.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Pattison, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Pattison has about 15 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pattison compares
At roughly 305 frost-free days, Pattison places 3,740 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 292 of 2,558.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Pattison's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Pattison's dates instead of trusting one.