Bogata, 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.
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 Bogata, 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 Bogata 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 Bogata — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Bogata — the short answer
Bogata, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 267 days between hard freezes, across 906 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 28
- Red River County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- Red River County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~267
- Red River County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 906 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 Red River County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Bogata's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bogata's 267-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bogata
Each reading below is measured for Bogata itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBogata runs about 267 days between hard freezes (read from Red River County, the closest normal to Bogata) — 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
MeasuredBogata 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 Bogata is in
Bogata sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Bogata's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Red River County is mostly East Central Texas Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Bogata
Every plant below cleared Bogata's own zone 8b and its 267-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bogata?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 31; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 28 (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. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Bogata
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bogata. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- QUICK TRACK 18Underground Storage Tanks · 100 ft
- RICKEY MOORES TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- STOP N START EXPRESS 8Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- HUDDLESTONS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BOGATA FOODMARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CAL-MAINE RED RIVERCAFO · 2.7 mi
- RED RIVER VALLEY EGG FARMCAFO · 2.7 mi
- FRANK CANNON 271 TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC RIVERCREST STATIONBrownfields · 5.9 mi
- COUNTY LINE FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- STAR FOOD & FUELUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.0 mi
- QUICK TRACK 32Underground Storage Tanks · 7.6 mi
3 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bogata'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 Bogata.
Total Sites
15
within ~10 miles of Bogata
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bogata
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bogata
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Bogata
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 Bogata average
Your land is one point inside Bogata
Everything above resolves to Bogata as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 906 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Red River 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 Bogata Average
Bogata Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Bogata
- ●One soil character for all of Bogata
- ●Frost dates read at Bogata's scale: Feb 28 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bogata's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bogata
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bogata, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bogata averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bogata — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bogata average
How we know this about Bogata
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 Red River 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 Bogata
When does frost risk typically end in Bogata?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bogata typically lands around Feb 28, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Bogata?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bogata 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 267 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bogata?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bogata sees about 267 frost-free days — roughly Feb 28 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 21 to Nov 8, about 232 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bogata?
The federal record around Bogata is light — 15 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (12), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Bogata?
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 Bogata's scale — its 8b band and its 267-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bogata'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 Bogata’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Bogata's own scale — the 906 acres it covers and 15 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bogata's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 15 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bogata, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bogata's boundary and the 906 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~267-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Bogata sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Bogata has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Red River County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bogata's 906 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Red River County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Red River 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 Red River County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bogata's 906 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bogata you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 906 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 Bogata-wide figureread your own land →
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