Bryan, TX 77881 Frost Dates
77881, near Bryan, TX: the frost window
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
Bryan'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 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
About 278 days separate Bryan's last and first frost, putting it 4,920 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 753 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77881: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bryan can differ from the 77881 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Bryan's frost date answer different questions.