Bishop Hills, TX 79189 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Bishop Hills, TX, ZIP 79189
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/13, roughly 228 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 195 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Bishop Hills has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Bishop Hills's last frost
04/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/29 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Bishop Hills compares
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Bishop Hills places 19,378 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within TX, it ranks 2,483 of 2,558.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Bishop Hills's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Bishop Hills can differ from the 79189 normal.