Bevil Oaks, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — okra, black-eyed pea, tomato, and jalapeno — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Bevil Oaks, 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 Bevil Oaks lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bevil Oaks — the short answer
Bevil Oaks, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 315 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- 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
- 1K 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 9a is Bevil Oaks's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bevil Oaks's 315-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bevil Oaks
Each reading below is measured for Bevil Oaks itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBevil Oaks runs about 315 days between hard freezes (read from Jefferson County, the closest normal to Bevil Oaks) — 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
MeasuredBevil Oaks sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Bevil Oaks is in
Bevil Oaks sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bevil Oaks's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Jefferson County is mostly Western Gulf Coastal Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Bevil Oaks
Plants matched to Bevil Oaks's USDA zones 9a, ordered by how much hardiness margin each has here — the ones with room to spare at both ends of this town's band lead. Each links to its full growing profile.
Is it too late to plant in Bevil Oaks?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Bevil Oaks
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bevil Oaks. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PT-61-54-902Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- RONNIESBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- K-MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- EXXPRESS MART 4Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- PINEWOOD MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- PT-61-55-702Nitrate · 2.8 mi
- PT-61-62-306Nitrate · 3.1 mi
- PT-61-55-705Nitrate · 3.1 mi
- FIBERGLASS MFG & FABR FACToxics Release Inventory · 3.6 mi
- K W DILLARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- STOP & DRIVE 34Underground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- PT-61-62-302Nitrate · 4.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bevil Oaks'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 Bevil Oaks.
Total Sites
555
within ~10 miles of Bevil Oaks
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bevil Oaks
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bevil Oaks
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.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Bevil Oaks
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Your land is one point inside Bevil Oaks
Everything above resolves to Bevil Oaks as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K 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 Bevil Oaks Average
Bevil Oaks Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Bevil Oaks
- ●One soil character for all of Bevil Oaks
- ●Frost dates read at Bevil Oaks's scale: Jan 29 to Dec 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bevil Oaks's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bevil Oaks
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Three things about your lot that Bevil Oaks averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bevil Oaks — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bevil Oaks average
How we know this about Bevil Oaks
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 Bevil Oaks
When does frost risk typically end in Bevil Oaks?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bevil Oaks 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 Bevil Oaks?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bevil Oaks 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 Bevil Oaks?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bevil Oaks 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 Bevil Oaks?
The federal record around Bevil Oaks is a meaningful one — 555 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (319), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.6 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 Bevil Oaks?
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 Bevil Oaks's scale — its 9a band and its 315-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bevil Oaks'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 Bevil Oaks’s own scale
4 of the readings below were taken at Bevil Oaks's own scale — the 1,305 acres it covers and 555 documented sites around it; 6 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bevil Oaks's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 555 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bevil Oaks, the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bevil Oaks's boundary and the 1,305 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Bevil Oaks sits in the South Central Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Bevil Oaks 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 Bevil Oaks's 1,305 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jefferson County
- The candidate plant list — Texas's curated set, filtered to this zone band and re-ordered by how much margin each has herefrom Texas
- 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 Bevil Oaks's 1,305 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bevil Oaks you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,305 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 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 Bevil Oaks-wide figureread your own land →
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