Westover Hills, TX 76116 Frost Dates
76116, near Westover Hills, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/03, roughly 187 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 270 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Westover Hills, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Westover Hills's growing season runs out in roughly 13 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
03/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/12 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.
Westover Hills against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 270 frost-free days, Westover Hills places 5,618 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,013 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76116: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Westover Hills's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Westover Hills's dates instead of trusting one.