Bellevue, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bellevue, 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 Bellevue 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 Bellevue — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Bellevue — the short answer
Bellevue, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 259 days between hard freezes, across 539 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~259
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 539 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Bellevue's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bellevue's 259-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bellevue
Each reading below is measured for Bellevue itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBellevue runs about 259 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBellevue sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Bellevue is in
Bellevue sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Bellevue's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clay County.
What Grows in Bellevue
Every plant below cleared Bellevue's own zone 8a and its 259-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bellevue?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 22 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Bellevue
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bellevue. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 928 C O ULYSSES 9 BLDG T36038Underground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- BELLEVUE MOTORUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- CIRCLE BUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- EAGLE MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BELLEVUE TRUCK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- WAL MART SUPERCENTER NO 271Brownfields · 7.0 mi
- TRIANGLE BRICK-CLAY COUNTY, TXToxics Release Inventory · 7.3 mi
- STAR TRAVEL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.9 mi
- OGLE CATTLECAFO · 8.8 mi
- CITY OF BOWIEPFAS · 9.0 mi
- York-1Mining · 9.4 mi
Measured from Bellevue'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 Bellevue.
Total Sites
11
within ~10 miles of Bellevue
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bellevue
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bellevue
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
Check your specific parcel in Bellevue
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 Bellevue average
Your land is one point inside Bellevue
Everything above resolves to Bellevue as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 539 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 Bellevue Average
Bellevue Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Bellevue
- ●One soil character for all of Bellevue
- ●Frost dates read at Bellevue's scale: Mar 8 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bellevue's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bellevue
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bellevue, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bellevue averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bellevue — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bellevue average
How we know this about Bellevue
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 Bellevue’s own record; 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 Bellevue
When does frost risk typically end in Bellevue?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bellevue typically lands around Mar 8, 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 Mar 29.
When is the first frost in Bellevue?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bellevue typically arrives around Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 8, so the watching starts about Oct 23 — about 259 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bellevue?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bellevue sees about 259 frost-free days — roughly Mar 8 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 29 to Nov 8, about 224 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bellevue?
The federal record around Bellevue shows 11 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (6), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Bellevue?
From about Oct 23 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 Nov 22 (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 Nov 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bellevue's scale — its 8a band and its 259-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bellevue'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 Bellevue’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Bellevue's own scale — its own ~259-day season between 28°F freezes, the 539 acres it covers and 11 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bellevue's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bellevue's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 8 and Nov 22 and the ~259-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 11 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bellevue, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bellevue's boundary and the 539 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~259-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bellevue's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bellevue's 539 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clay County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clay 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 Clay County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bellevue's 539 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bellevue you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 539 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 Bellevue-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across TexasBellevue sits outside our named growing regions, so Texas as a whole is its closest context here.