Bishop Hills, TX 79010 Frost Dates
Bishop Hills, TX: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 190 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bishop Hills in Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
With roughly 8 weeks until Bishop Hills'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
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bishop Hills against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Bishop Hills places 21,320 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,502 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79010's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bishop Hills's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bishop Hills can differ from the 79010 normal.