Sugar Land, TX 77498 Frost Dates
77498, near Sugar Land, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/02, roughly 158 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/11, roughly 318 days after the last spring frost.
Sugar Land 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
Sugar Land'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 Sugar Land'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.
Sugar Land against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 318 frost-free days, Sugar Land places 3,327 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 228 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77498: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Sugar Land's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Sugar Land's dates instead of trusting one.