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Victoria, TX 77902 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Victoria, TX, ZIP 77902

Zone 9b

Around 02/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 170 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/09, about 299 frost-free days later.

Victoria sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 9b around Victoria has about 15 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 Victoria's last frost

02/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/17 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Victoria compares

About 299 days separate Victoria's last and first frost, putting it 4,155 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 473 of 2,558.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Victoria's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Victoria's dates instead of trusting one.