Tiki Island, TX 77550 Frost Dates
Tiki Island, TX: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/25, roughly 150 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 01/01, roughly 348 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Tiki Island in Zone 10a (30 to 35°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
With roughly 18 weeks until Tiki Island's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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 2,379 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 81 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77550's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 10a and Tiki Island's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Tiki Island's dates instead of trusting one.