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Bryan, TX 77803 Frost Dates

Bryan, TX: when does the frost end?

Zone 9a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/27, about 183 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/30, roughly 278 days after the last spring frost.

Bryan sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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

With roughly 13 weeks until Bryan's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Bryan's last frost

02/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Bryan against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 278 frost-free days, Bryan places 4,912 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 745 of 2,558.

Learn more

Before leaning on 77803's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bryan can differ from the 77803 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Bryan's frost date answer different questions.