Manvel, TX 77578 Frost Dates
77578, near Manvel, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 01/31, about 156 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/27, roughly 328 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Manvel in Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
Manvel's growing season runs out in roughly 17 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
01/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Manvel against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 328 frost-free days, Manvel places 3,185 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 189 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77578: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Manvel's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Manvel's dates instead of trusting one.