Richland Hills, TX 76118 Frost Dates
76118, near Richland Hills, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/05, roughly 189 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 264 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 Richland Hills, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Richland 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.
The actual range around Richland Hills's last frost
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Richland Hills against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 264 frost-free days, Richland Hills places 6,059 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 1,105 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 76118: local microclimates, on what one yard in Richland Hills can differ from the 76118 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Richland Hills's frost date answer different questions.