Point Comfort, TX 77978 Frost Dates
77978, near Point Comfort, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/01, about 157 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/21, roughly 321 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 Point Comfort, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Point Comfort's growing season runs out in roughly 16 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
02/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Point Comfort against the rest of the dataset
Point Comfort's growing season runs about 321 days, ranking 3,313 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 218 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77978: local microclimates, on what one yard in Point Comfort can differ from the 77978 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Point Comfort's frost date answer different questions.