Tiki Island, TX 77592 Frost Dates
77592, near Tiki Island, TX: the frost window
Around 01/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 150 days away. 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 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
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.
Why 01/25 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 348 frost-free days, Tiki Island places 2,382 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 84 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77592: 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 77592 normal.