Bishop Hills, TX 79166 Frost Dates
79166, near Bishop Hills, TX: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/13, about 228 days from today. 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.
The actual range around Bishop Hills's last frost
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 19,373 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,478 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 79166: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Bishop Hills's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bishop Hills's dates instead of trusting one.