Brundage, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Brundage, 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 Brundage lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Brundage — the short answer
Brundage, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 310 days between hard freezes, across 391 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 2
- Dimmit County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 9
- Dimmit County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~310
- Dimmit County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 391 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 Dimmit County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Brundage's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Brundage's 310-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Brundage
Each reading below is measured for Brundage itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBrundage runs about 310 days between hard freezes (read from Dimmit County, the closest normal to Brundage) — 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
MeasuredBrundage 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 Brundage is in
Brundage sits in the Southern Texas Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Brundage's own centroid rather than borrowed from Dimmit County.
What Grows in Brundage
Every plant below cleared Brundage's own zone 9a and its 310-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Brundage?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 9 — 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 Brundage
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Brundage. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CARRIZO CATTLE FEEDLOTCAFO · 4.6 mi
- HZ-77-28-1xxNitrate · 5.3 mi
- RJS CONVENIENCE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- JRS DRIVE THRUUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- HZ-77-26-2xxNitrate · 7.9 mi
- HZ-77-26-816Nitrate · 9.9 mi
- U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE FIRING RANGEToxics Release Inventory · 9.9 mi
Measured from Brundage'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 Brundage.
Total Sites
10
within ~10 miles of Brundage
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Brundage
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Brundage
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •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.
Check your specific parcel in Brundage
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 Brundage average
Your land is one point inside Brundage
Everything above resolves to Brundage as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 391 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Dimmit County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’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 town 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 Brundage Average
Brundage Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Brundage
- ●One soil character for all of Brundage
- ●Frost dates read at Brundage's scale: Feb 2 to Dec 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Brundage's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Brundage
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Brundage, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Brundage — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Brundage average
How we know this about Brundage
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Dimmit 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 town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-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 Brundage
When does frost risk typically end in Brundage?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Brundage typically lands around Feb 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Brundage?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Brundage typically arrives around Dec 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 25, so the watching starts about Nov 9 — about 310 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Brundage?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Brundage sees about 310 frost-free days — roughly Feb 2 through Dec 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 23 to Nov 25, about 275 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Brundage?
The federal record around Brundage is light — 10 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (6), the nearest CAFO record about 4.6 miles 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 Brundage?
From about Nov 9 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Brundage's scale — its 9a band and its 310-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Brundage'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 Brundage’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Brundage's own scale — the 391 acres it covers and 10 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Brundage's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 10 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Brundage, the closest CAFO record about 4.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Brundage's boundary and the 391 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~310-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Brundage's own centroid, the Southern Texas PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Brundage has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Dimmit County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Brundage's 391 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Dimmit County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Dimmit 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 Dimmit County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Brundage's 391 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Brundage you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 391 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest CAFO record about 4.6 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 Brundage-wide figureread your own land →