College Station, TX 77841 Frost Dates
77841, near College Station, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/27, roughly 183 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/30, roughly 278 days after the last spring frost.
College Station 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
College Station's growing season runs out in roughly 13 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 College Station'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.
College Station against the rest of the dataset
About 278 days separate College Station's last and first frost, putting it 4,908 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 741 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77841: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and College Station's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around College Station's dates instead of trusting one.