Bishop Hills, TX 79117 Frost Dates
79117, near Bishop Hills, TX: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/13, roughly 228 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 195 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 9 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
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bishop Hills against the rest of the dataset
About 195 days separate Bishop Hills's last and first frost, putting it 19,372 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,477 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79117: 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 79117 normal.