Spring Branch, TX 78004 Frost Dates
78004, near Spring Branch, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/01, about 185 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/01, roughly 276 days after the last spring frost.
Spring Branch sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Spring Branch's growing season runs out in roughly 14 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 Spring Branch's last frost
03/01 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 03/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Spring Branch against the rest of the dataset
About 276 days separate Spring Branch's last and first frost, putting it 5,117 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 843 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78004: the frost range, on how to read the range around Spring Branch's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Spring Branch can differ from the 78004 normal.