Circle D-KC Estates, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Circle D-KC Estates, 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 Circle D-KC Estates lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Circle D-KC Estates — the short answer
Circle D-KC Estates, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 295 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 11
- Bastrop County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 3
- Bastrop County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~295
- Bastrop County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 6K 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 Bastrop County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Circle D-KC Estates's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Circle D-KC Estates's 295-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Circle D-KC Estates
Each reading below is measured for Circle D-KC Estates itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsCircle D-KC Estates runs about 295 days between hard freezes (read from Bastrop County, the closest normal to Circle D-KC Estates) — 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
MeasuredCircle D-KC Estates 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 Circle D-KC Estates is in
Circle D-KC Estates sits in the East Central Texas Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Circle D-KC Estates's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bastrop County.
What Grows in Circle D-KC Estates
Every plant below cleared Circle D-KC Estates's own zone 9a and its 295-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Circle D-KC Estates?
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 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 11 (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. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
Documented around Circle D-KC Estates
Survey cells within 31 miles of Circle D-KC Estates checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 587 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Circle D-KC Estates
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Circle D-KC Estates. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AT-58-55-706Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- TERRYS CORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- AT-58-55-703Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- BB MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- LCRA SIM GIDEON POWER PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- LCRA LAKE BASTROP PARK N SHOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- AT-58-55-504Nitrate · 2.9 mi
- AT-58-63-105Nitrate · 2.9 mi
- LCRA LAKE BASTROP PARKS SHOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- LAKELINE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- AT-58-62-310Nitrate · 3.3 mi
- AT-58-54-302Nitrate · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Circle D-KC Estates'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 Circle D-KC Estates.
Total Sites
228
within ~10 miles of Circle D-KC Estates
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Circle D-KC Estates
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Circle D-KC Estates
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Circle D-KC Estates, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 110 sites within ~10 miles of Circle D-KC Estates. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Circle D-KC Estates
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 Circle D-KC Estates average
Your land is one point inside Circle D-KC Estates
Everything above resolves to Circle D-KC Estates as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 6K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Bastrop 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 Circle D-KC Estates Average
Circle D-KC Estates Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Circle D-KC Estates
- ●One soil character for all of Circle D-KC Estates
- ●Frost dates read at Circle D-KC Estates's scale: Feb 11 to Dec 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Circle D-KC Estates's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Circle D-KC Estates
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Circle D-KC Estates, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Circle D-KC Estates averages can't show:
We read public map data around Circle D-KC Estates — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Circle D-KC Estates average
How we know this about Circle D-KC Estates
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 Bastrop 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 Circle D-KC Estates
When does frost risk typically end in Circle D-KC Estates?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Circle D-KC Estates typically lands around Feb 11, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Circle D-KC Estates?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Circle D-KC Estates 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 295 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Circle D-KC Estates?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Circle D-KC Estates sees about 295 frost-free days — roughly Feb 11 through Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 4 to Nov 19, about 260 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Circle D-KC Estates?
The federal record around Circle D-KC Estates is a meaningful one — 228 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (110), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.9 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 Circle D-KC Estates?
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 Circle D-KC Estates's scale — its 9a band and its 295-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Circle D-KC Estates'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 Circle D-KC Estates’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Circle D-KC Estates's own scale — the 5,942 acres it covers and 228 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Circle D-KC Estates's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 228 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Circle D-KC Estates, the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Circle D-KC Estates's boundary and the 5,942 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~295-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Circle D-KC Estates's own centroid, the East Central Texas PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Circle D-KC Estates checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Circle D-KC Estates has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Bastrop County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Circle D-KC Estates's 5,942 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bastrop County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bastrop 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 Bastrop County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Circle D-KC Estates's 5,942 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Circle D-KC Estates you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,942 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 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 Circle D-KC Estates-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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