Beaumont, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
The conditions favor okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Beaumont, 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 Beaumont 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 Beaumont — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Beaumont — the short answer
Beaumont, Texas: USDA zone 9b, about 315 days between hard freezes, across 53K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 29
- Jefferson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 10
- Jefferson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~315
- Jefferson County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 53K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Jefferson County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Beaumont's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beaumont's 315-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beaumont
Each reading below is measured for Beaumont itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBeaumont runs about 315 days between hard freezes (read from Jefferson County, the closest normal to Beaumont) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBeaumont sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b.
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
The kind of country Beaumont is in
Beaumont sits in the Western Gulf Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Beaumont's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jefferson County.
What Grows in Beaumont
Every plant below cleared Beaumont's own zone 9b and its 315-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beaumont?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Beaumont
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beaumont. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ANTHONY C PARIGIUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- MB EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- KROGER #328-34Brownfields · 750 ft
- KROGER FUEL FACILITY 328Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- K-1Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BRYAN FOOD STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- PHILLIP 66 017888Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- FASTLANE NO 32Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- JOELS PAINT & BODYBrownfields · 2500 ft
- ALAMO CLEANERSBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- FASTLANE 16Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- FASTLANE NO 34Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beaumont'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 Beaumont.
Total Sites
1,188
within ~10 miles of Beaumont
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beaumont
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beaumont
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beaumont, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 75 sites within ~10 miles of Beaumont. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Beaumont
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 Beaumont average
Your land is one point inside Beaumont
Everything above resolves to Beaumont as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 53K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Jefferson County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’s own centroid. 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 Beaumont Average
Beaumont Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Beaumont
- ●One soil character for all of Beaumont
- ●Frost dates read at Beaumont's scale: Jan 29 to Dec 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beaumont's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Beaumont
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beaumont, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beaumont averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beaumont — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beaumont average
How we know this about Beaumont
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 at Jefferson County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Beaumont
When does frost risk typically end in Beaumont?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beaumont typically lands around Jan 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Feb 19.
When is the first frost in Beaumont?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beaumont typically arrives around Dec 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 26, so the watching starts about Nov 10 — about 315 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beaumont?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beaumont sees about 315 frost-free days — roughly Jan 29 through Dec 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 19 to Nov 26, about 280 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beaumont?
The federal record around Beaumont is a meaningful one — 1,188 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (687), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Beaumont?
From about Nov 10 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Dec 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), 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 Dec 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beaumont's scale — its 9b band and its 315-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beaumont'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 Beaumont’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Beaumont's own scale — the 52,570 acres it covers and 1,188 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beaumont's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 1,188 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beaumont, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beaumont's boundary and the 52,570 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~315-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Beaumont's own centroid, the Western Gulf Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Beaumont has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Jefferson County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beaumont's 52,570 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jefferson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jefferson County
- The growing challenges every Texas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Texas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Jefferson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beaumont's 52,570 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beaumont you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 52,570 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Beaumont-wide figureread your own land →
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