Beaumont, TX 77701 Frost Dates
77701, near Beaumont, TX: the frost window
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.
Beaumont 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
Beaumont's growing season runs out in roughly 14 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 Beaumont's last frost
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.
Beaumont against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 301 frost-free days, Beaumont places 3,889 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 294 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77701: local microclimates, on what one yard in Beaumont can differ from the 77701 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Beaumont's frost date answer different questions.