Richmond, TX 77496 Frost Dates
Richmond, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 02/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 171 days away. 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 Richmond 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 Richmond's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Richmond'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.
Richmond against the rest of the dataset
About 297 days separate Richmond's last and first frost, putting it 4,221 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 493 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77496's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Richmond's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Richmond's dates instead of trusting one.