Hilshire Village, TX 77055 Frost Dates
77055, near Hilshire Village, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/13, roughly 169 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/09, roughly 300 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 Hilshire Village, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hilshire Village's growing season runs out in roughly 15 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 Hilshire Village's last frost
02/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hilshire Village against the rest of the dataset
Hilshire Village's growing season runs about 300 days, ranking 4,135 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 461 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77055: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hilshire Village's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hilshire Village can differ from the 77055 normal.