Santa Fe, TX 77510 Frost Dates
77510, near Santa Fe, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/31, roughly 156 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/14, roughly 317 days after the last spring frost.
Santa Fe 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
Santa Fe'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 Santa Fe's last frost
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.
Santa Fe against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 317 frost-free days, Santa Fe places 3,376 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 261 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77510: the frost range, on how to read the range around Santa Fe's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Santa Fe can differ from the 77510 normal.