Bishop Hills, TX 79168 Frost Dates
Bishop Hills, TX: when does the frost end?
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
With roughly 9 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
04/13 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 19,374 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 2,479 of 2,558.
Learn more
Before leaning on 79168's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Bishop Hills's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bishop Hills's dates instead of trusting one.