Snook, TX 77878 Frost Dates
77878, near Snook, 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.
Snook 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
Snook'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Snook against the rest of the dataset
Snook's growing season runs about 278 days, ranking 4,931 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 764 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77878: local microclimates, on what one yard in Snook can differ from the 77878 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Snook's frost date answer different questions.