Seadrift, TX 77982 Frost Dates
Seadrift, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 02/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 157 days away. 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 Seadrift, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 16 weeks until Seadrift's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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.
Seadrift against the rest of the dataset
About 321 days separate Seadrift's last and first frost, putting it 3,309 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 216 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77982's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Seadrift can differ from the 77982 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Seadrift's frost date answer different questions.