Hico, TX 76457 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Hico, TX, ZIP 76457
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/07, about 229 frost-free days later.
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 Hico, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Hico has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Hico's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Hico compares
At roughly 229 frost-free days, Hico places 10,614 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,174 of 2,558.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Hico can differ from the 76457 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Hico's frost date answer different questions.