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Dickinson, TX 77539 Frost Dates

Dickinson, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 9b

Around 01/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 156 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/14, roughly 317 days after the last spring frost.

Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Dickinson, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 15 weeks until Dickinson's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Dickinson'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.

Dickinson against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 317 frost-free days, Dickinson places 3,370 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 259 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 77539's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Dickinson's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Dickinson's dates instead of trusting one.