Blue Mound, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Blue Mound, 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 Blue Mound lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Blue Mound — the short answer
Blue Mound, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 292 days between hard freezes, across 323 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 14
- Tarrant County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 3
- Tarrant County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~292
- Tarrant County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 323 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 Tarrant County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Blue Mound's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Blue Mound's 292-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Blue Mound
Each reading below is measured for Blue Mound itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBlue Mound runs about 292 days between hard freezes (read from Tarrant County, the closest normal to Blue Mound) — 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
MeasuredBlue Mound sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Blue Mound is in
Blue Mound sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Blue Mound's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tarrant County.
What Grows in Blue Mound
Every plant below cleared Blue Mound's own zone 8b and its 292-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Blue Mound?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 3 — 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 Blue Mound
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Blue Mound. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TXDOT SPECIAL MAINTENANCE FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- TXDOT NW TARRANT COUNTY MAINTENANCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- ALLIANCE COATINGSBrownfields · 2200 ft
- ASSOCIATED MILK PRODUCERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- FT WORTH CATTLE EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- CITY OF BLUE MOUNDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- BLUEMOUND AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- CORNER STORE 0727Underground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- UNITED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LTDBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- FUEL CITY SAGINAWUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- RANDYS 3Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- SAGINAW 232 CENTRAL OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Blue Mound'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 Blue Mound.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Blue Mound
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Blue Mound
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Blue Mound, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Blue Mound — Toxics Release Inventory (186 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (1,606 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Blue Mound
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 Blue Mound average
Your land is one point inside Blue Mound
Everything above resolves to Blue Mound as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 323 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Tarrant 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 Blue Mound Average
Blue Mound Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Blue Mound
- ●One soil character for all of Blue Mound
- ●Frost dates read at Blue Mound's scale: Feb 14 to Dec 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Blue Mound's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Blue Mound
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Blue Mound, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Blue Mound averages can't show:
We read public map data around Blue Mound — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Blue Mound average
How we know this about Blue Mound
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 Tarrant 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 Blue Mound
When does frost risk typically end in Blue Mound?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Blue Mound typically lands around Feb 14, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Blue Mound?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Blue Mound typically arrives around Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 19, so the watching starts about Nov 3 — about 292 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Blue Mound?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Blue Mound sees about 292 frost-free days — roughly Feb 14 through Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 7 to Nov 19, about 257 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Blue Mound?
The federal record around Blue Mound runs heavier than most — 2,267 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,606), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Blue Mound?
From about Nov 3 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Blue Mound's scale — its 8b band and its 292-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Blue Mound'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 Blue Mound’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Blue Mound's own scale — the 323 acres it covers and 2,267 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Blue Mound's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 2,267 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Blue Mound, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Blue Mound's boundary and the 323 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~292-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Blue Mound's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Blue Mound has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Tarrant County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Blue Mound's 323 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tarrant County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tarrant 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 Tarrant County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Blue Mound's 323 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Blue Mound you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 323 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 Blue Mound-wide figureread your own land →
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