Shoreacres, TX 77507 Frost Dates
77507, near Shoreacres, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/31, about 156 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/14, roughly 317 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Shoreacres 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
Shoreacres'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.
Why 01/31 isn't a guarantee
01/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Shoreacres against the rest of the dataset
Shoreacres's growing season runs about 317 days, ranking 3,389 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 270 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77507: local microclimates, on what one yard in Shoreacres can differ from the 77507 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Shoreacres's frost date answer different questions.