Burton, TX 77835 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Burton, TX, ZIP 77835
Around 03/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 202 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 238 frost-free days later.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Burton, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Burton has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Burton's last frost
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/25 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Burton compares
About 238 days separate Burton's last and first frost, putting it 9,033 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 1,990 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Burton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Burton can differ from the 77835 normal.