Bishop Hills, TX 79124 Frost Dates
Bishop Hills, TX: when does the frost end?
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.
Bishop Hills sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 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.
The actual range around Bishop Hills's last frost
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
At roughly 182 frost-free days, Bishop Hills places 24,338 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,533 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79124's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bishop Hills can differ from the 79124 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bishop Hills's frost date answer different questions.