Victoria, TX 77901 Frost Dates
Victoria, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 02/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 170 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/09, roughly 299 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Victoria, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 15 weeks until Victoria's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Victoria's last frost
02/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Victoria against the rest of the dataset
About 299 days separate Victoria's last and first frost, putting it 4,154 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 472 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77901's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Victoria's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Victoria can differ from the 77901 normal.