Clint, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Clint, 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 Clint 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 Clint — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Clint — the short answer
Clint, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 266 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~266
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Clint's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Clint's 266-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Clint
Each reading below is measured for Clint itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredClint runs about 266 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredClint 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 Clint is in
Clint sits in the Chihuahuan Deserts — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Clint's own centroid rather than borrowed from El Paso County.
What Grows in Clint
Every plant below cleared Clint's own zone 8b and its 266-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Clint?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 19 — 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 Clint
Survey cells within 31 miles of Clint checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 648 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Clint
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Clint. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CLINT CENTRAL OFFICE XA0022Underground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- NAHOKOS DRUMSBrownfields · 1100 ft
- C&R FUEL CONTROL 46Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- 7 ELEVEN 53318Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- CLINT EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- QUICK & EASY CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- T AND R CHEMICALS INCBrownfields · 2500 ft
- SCHOOL BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- WEST TEXAS PROPANEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CLINT TRANSPORTATIONS SERVICESBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- EXPRESS FUELUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #7348Brownfields · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Clint'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 Clint.
Total Sites
251
within ~10 miles of Clint
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
23 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Clint
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Clint
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Clint, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Clint — PFAS (4 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (23 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Clint
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 Clint average
Your land is one point inside Clint
Everything above resolves to Clint as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K acres. 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 Clint Average
Clint Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Clint
- ●One soil character for all of Clint
- ●Frost dates read at Clint's scale: Feb 26 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Clint's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Clint
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Clint, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Clint averages can't show:
We read public map data around Clint — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Clint average
How we know this about Clint
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 Clint’s own record; 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 Clint
When does frost risk typically end in Clint?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Clint typically lands around Feb 26, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Clint?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Clint typically arrives around Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 5, so the watching starts about Oct 20 — about 266 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Clint?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Clint sees about 266 frost-free days — roughly Feb 26 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 19 to Nov 5, about 231 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Clint?
The federal record around Clint is a meaningful one — 251 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (145), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Clint?
From about Oct 20 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Clint's scale — its 8b band and its 266-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Clint'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 Clint’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Clint's own scale — its own ~266-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,257 acres it covers and 251 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Clint's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Clint's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 26 and Nov 19 and the ~266-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 251 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Clint, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Clint's boundary and the 1,257 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~266-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Clint's own centroid, the Chihuahuan DesertsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Clint checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Clint's 1,257 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom El Paso County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom El Paso 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 El Paso County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Clint's 1,257 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Clint you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,257 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 Clint-wide figureread your own land →