Beaumont, TX 77705 Frost Dates
77705, near Beaumont, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/14, roughly 170 days out. 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
About 301 days separate Beaumont's last and first frost, putting it 3,890 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 295 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77705: local microclimates, on what one yard in Beaumont can differ from the 77705 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Beaumont's frost date answer different questions.