Aransas Pass, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Aransas Pass, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Aransas Pass lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Aransas Pass — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Aransas Pass — the short answer
Aransas Pass, Texas: USDA zone 10a, across 8K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 10a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (statewide)
- Feb 10 - Mar 12
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, state middle half
- First hard freeze (statewide)
- Nov 18 - Dec 4
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, state middle half
- City area
- 8K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Where no local normal resolves, the figure is the statewide middle-half window, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Growing Season
Zone 10a is Aransas Pass's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against that, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Aransas Pass
Each reading below is measured for Aransas Pass itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAransas Pass sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
What Grows in Aransas Pass
Every plant below cleared Aransas Pass's own zone 10a. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Aransas Pass
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Aransas Pass. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SITE 378 CLOSEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- CARBON BLACKToxics Release Inventory · 2.1 mi
- COASTLINE ARANSAS PASSBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- TEXACO DISTRIBUTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- RAHI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- TEXACO DISTRIBUTORUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- JIMS TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- CURTIS HILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- F & J AUTO TRUCK & RV SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- FORMER FINA SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- 7-ELEVEN STORE 40792Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- STREET DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius.
Measured from Aransas Pass's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Aransas Pass.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Aransas Pass
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Aransas Pass
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Aransas Pass, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Aransas Pass — PFAS (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (139 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Aransas Pass
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Aransas Pass average
Your land is one point inside Aransas Pass
Everything above resolves to Aransas Pass as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 8K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Aransas Pass Average
Aransas Pass Average
- ●USDA Zones 10a, averaged across Aransas Pass
- ●One soil character for all of Aransas Pass
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Aransas Pass's 10a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Aransas Pass
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Aransas Pass, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Aransas Pass averages can't show:
We read public map data around Aransas Pass — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Aransas Pass average
How we know this about Aransas Pass
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals, with the labelled statewide window where none resolves; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Aransas Pass
When does frost risk typically end in Aransas Pass?
Aransas Pass has no hard-freeze normal of its own, so it follows Texas's statewide window: the middle half of counties see their last spring hard freeze (28°F) around Feb 10 - Mar 12 and their first fall hard freeze around Nov 18 - Dec 4, per NOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS (1991–2020). Frost dates shift with elevation and local microclimate, so watch your own site's cold pockets. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — light frosts can still bite for a few more weeks, so tender transplants usually wait another 2–3 weeks.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Aransas Pass?
The federal record around Aransas Pass is a meaningful one — 222 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (139), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Aransas Pass?
As the season closes around Texas's statewide first fall hard freeze (28°F) near Nov 18 - Dec 4 (NOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS (1991–2020)), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before the first hard night. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Aransas Pass's scale — its 10a band and its zone 10a. Your yard writes its own version of Aransas Pass's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Aransas Pass’s own scale
4 of the readings below were taken at Aransas Pass's own scale — the 8,442 acres it covers and 222 documented sites around it; 3 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Aransas Pass's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 222 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Aransas Pass, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Aransas Pass's boundary and the 8,442 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Aransas Pass's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
Inherited from a wider read
- The frost window — no local hard-freeze normal resolved here, so the statewide dates stand infrom Texas
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Aransas Pass's 8,442 acres read through the state summaryfrom Texas
- The growing challenges every Texas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Texas
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Aransas Pass's 8,442 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Aransas Pass you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 8,442 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Aransas Pass-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across TexasAransas Pass sits outside our named growing regions, so Texas as a whole is its closest context here.
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