Danbury, TX 77534 Frost Dates
77534, near Danbury, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/29, roughly 154 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/31, roughly 333 days after the last spring frost.
Danbury 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
Danbury's growing season runs out in roughly 18 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
01/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Danbury against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 333 frost-free days, Danbury places 2,852 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 109 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77534: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Danbury's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Danbury's dates instead of trusting one.