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Deer Park, TX 77503 Frost Dates

Deer Park, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 9b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/30, about 155 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/28, roughly 330 days after the last spring frost.

Deer Park 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

With roughly 17 weeks until Deer Park's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Deer Park's last frost

01/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Deer Park against the rest of the dataset

About 330 days separate Deer Park's last and first frost, putting it 3,001 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 149 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 77503's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Deer Park's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Deer Park can differ from the 77503 normal.