Bridge City, TX 77639 Frost Dates
Bridge City, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 02/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 170 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/07, roughly 301 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bridge City 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
With roughly 14 weeks until Bridge City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bridge City against the rest of the dataset
Bridge City's growing season runs about 301 days, ranking 3,966 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 307 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77639's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bridge City can differ from the 77639 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Bridge City's frost date answer different questions.