Stafford, TX 77477 Frost Dates
77477, near Stafford, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/02, about 158 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/11, roughly 318 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Stafford 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
Stafford'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.
The actual range around Stafford's last frost
02/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stafford against the rest of the dataset
About 318 days separate Stafford's last and first frost, putting it 3,344 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 238 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77477: the frost range, on how to read the range around Stafford's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Stafford can differ from the 77477 normal.