Hillcrest Village, TX 77512 Frost Dates
77512, near Hillcrest Village, TX: the frost window
Around 01/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 156 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/27, roughly 328 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hillcrest Village in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hillcrest Village's growing season runs out in roughly 17 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
01/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hillcrest Village against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 328 frost-free days, Hillcrest Village places 3,197 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 193 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 77512: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hillcrest Village can differ from the 77512 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Hillcrest Village's frost date answer different questions.