Bishop Hills, TX 79012 Frost Dates
79012, near Bishop Hills, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/22, roughly 237 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 182 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Bishop Hills, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bishop Hills's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/22 isn't a guarantee
04/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bishop Hills against the rest of the dataset
Bishop Hills's growing season runs about 182 days, ranking 24,336 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 2,531 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79012: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bishop Hills's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bishop Hills can differ from the 79012 normal.