Hilshire Village, TX 77088 Frost Dates
Hilshire Village, TX: when does the frost end?
Around 02/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 169 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/09, roughly 300 days after the last spring frost.
Hilshire Village sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
With roughly 15 weeks until Hilshire Village's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 4,136 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 462 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 77088's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hilshire Village's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hilshire Village can differ from the 77088 normal.