Richmond, TX 77469 Frost Dates
77469, near Richmond, TX: the frost window
Around 02/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 165 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/13, roughly 305 days after the last spring frost.
Richmond 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
Richmond's growing season runs out in roughly 15 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
02/09 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 03/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Richmond against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 305 frost-free days, Richmond places 3,735 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 287 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77469: the frost range, on how to read the range around Richmond's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Richmond can differ from the 77469 normal.