Eastland, 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 Eastland, 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 Eastland 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 Eastland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Eastland — the short answer
Eastland, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 251 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 13
- 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
- ~251
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 3K 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 Eastland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eastland's 251-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eastland
Each reading below is measured for Eastland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEastland 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
MeasuredEastland 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 Eastland is in
Eastland sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Eastland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Eastland County.
What Grows in Eastland
Every plant below cleared Eastland'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 Eastland?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 13 (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 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 Eastland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eastland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BROOKSHIRE GROCERY 98Underground Storage Tanks · 100 ft
- BULK PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- HOOD KING MOTORUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- THRIFT MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- THRIFT 61101Underground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- FULLEN MOTORUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- B & H STOP-N-GOUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- VICTOR CORNELIUSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- JIMS EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- PERKINS IMPLEMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- JAYS MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- JOE BOB OIL FIELD SERVICE INCBrownfields · 1100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eastland'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 Eastland.
Total Sites
137
within ~10 miles of Eastland
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eastland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eastland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Eastland, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 121 sites within ~10 miles of Eastland. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Eastland
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 Eastland average
Your land is one point inside Eastland
Everything above resolves to Eastland as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Eastland Average
Eastland Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Eastland
- ●One soil character for all of Eastland
- ●Frost dates read at Eastland's scale: Mar 13 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eastland's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eastland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eastland, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Eastland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eastland average
How we know this about Eastland
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 Eastland’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 Eastland
When does frost risk typically end in Eastland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eastland typically lands around Mar 13, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Eastland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eastland 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 251 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eastland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eastland sees about 251 frost-free days — roughly Mar 13 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 3 to Nov 5, about 216 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eastland?
The federal record around Eastland shows 137 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (121), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Eastland?
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 Eastland's scale — its 8a band and its 251-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eastland'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 Eastland’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Eastland's own scale — its own ~251-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,806 acres it covers and 137 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eastland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Eastland's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 13 and Nov 19 and the ~251-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 137 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eastland, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eastland's boundary and the 2,806 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~251-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Eastland's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eastland's 2,806 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Eastland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Eastland 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 Eastland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eastland's 2,806 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eastland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,806 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 Eastland-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across TexasEastland sits outside our named growing regions, so Texas as a whole is its closest context here.