Tiki Island, TX 77549 Frost Dates
77549, near Tiki Island, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/25, about 150 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/01, roughly 348 days after the last spring frost.
Tiki Island 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
Tiki Island'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.
The actual range around Tiki Island's last frost
01/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tiki Island against the rest of the dataset
About 348 days separate Tiki Island's last and first frost, putting it 2,378 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 80 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77549: the frost range, on how to read the range around Tiki Island's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Tiki Island can differ from the 77549 normal.