Crowell, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Crowell, 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 Crowell lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Crowell — the short answer
Crowell, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 251 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~251
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 8a is Crowell's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Crowell's 251-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Crowell
Each reading below is measured for Crowell itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCrowell runs about 251 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCrowell sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Crowell is in
Crowell sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Crowell's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Foard County is mostly Southwestern Tablelands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Crowell
Every plant below cleared Crowell's own zone 8a and its 251-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Crowell?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 18 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Crowell
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Crowell. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TOLE SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- ADKINS OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- ALLSUPS 75Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- PENMAN CONOCO SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- FOARD COUNTY PROPANEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- TXDOT CROWELL MAINTENANCE FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- CROWELL ISDUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- Raggedy CreekMining · 4.5 mi
- Raggedy Creek-1Mining · 4.7 mi
- Teacup Mountain-2Mining · 7.9 mi
- Copper Breaks-2Mining · 8.6 mi
- Teacup Mountain-1Mining · 8.8 mi
2 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Crowell'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 Crowell.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Crowell
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Crowell
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 Crowell average
Your land is one point inside Crowell
Everything above resolves to Crowell 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 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 Crowell Average
Crowell Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Crowell
- ●One soil character for all of Crowell
- ●Frost dates read at Crowell's scale: Mar 12 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Crowell's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Crowell
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Crowell, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Crowell averages can't show:
We read public map data around Crowell — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Crowell average
How we know this about Crowell
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 Crowell’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 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 Crowell
When does frost risk typically end in Crowell?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Crowell typically lands around Mar 12, 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 Apr 2.
When is the first frost in Crowell?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Crowell typically arrives around Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 4, so the watching starts about Oct 19 — about 251 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Crowell?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Crowell sees about 251 frost-free days — roughly Mar 12 through Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 2 to Nov 4, about 216 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Crowell?
The federal record around Crowell is light — 14 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Mining entries (7), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Crowell?
From about Oct 19 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Crowell's scale — its 8a band and its 251-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Crowell'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 Crowell’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Crowell's own scale — its own ~251-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,207 acres it covers and 14 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Crowell's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Crowell's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 12 and Nov 18 and the ~251-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 14 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Crowell, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Crowell's boundary and the 1,207 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~251-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Crowell sits in the Central Great Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Crowell's 1,207 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Foard County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Foard 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 Foard County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Crowell's 1,207 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Crowell you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,207 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Crowell-wide figureread your own land →
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