Elias-Fela Solis, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Growers here do well with okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Elias-Fela Solis, 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 Elias-Fela Solis lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Elias-Fela Solis — the short answer
Elias-Fela Solis, Texas: USDA zone 9b, about 322 days between hard freezes, across 151 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 21
- Starr County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 9
- Starr County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~322
- Starr County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 151 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 Starr County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Elias-Fela Solis's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Elias-Fela Solis's 322-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Elias-Fela Solis
Each reading below is measured for Elias-Fela Solis itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsElias-Fela Solis runs about 322 days between hard freezes (read from Starr County, the closest normal to Elias-Fela Solis) — 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
MeasuredElias-Fela Solis sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b.
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 Elias-Fela Solis is in
Elias-Fela Solis sits in the Southern Texas Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Elias-Fela Solis's own centroid rather than borrowed from Starr County.
What Grows in Elias-Fela Solis
Every plant below cleared Elias-Fela Solis's own zone 9b and its 322-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Elias-Fela Solis?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 21 (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. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Elias-Fela Solis
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Elias-Fela Solis. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FAMILY DOLLAR #6039Brownfields · 2.4 mi
- EL ALTO COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- CIRCLE 7 EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- 7-ELEVEN STORE 40601Underground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- RIO GRANDE GROWERS COOP 1Underground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- GARCIAS GROCERY & AUTO PARTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- J & R FEEDLOTCAFO · 5.8 mi
- J & L CONVENIENCE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- AGUA SUDPFAS · 7.0 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #8196Brownfields · 7.4 mi
- O'REILLY AUTO PARTS STORE 564Brownfields · 7.4 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #5104Brownfields · 7.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Elias-Fela Solis'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 Elias-Fela Solis.
Total Sites
21
within ~10 miles of Elias-Fela Solis
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Elias-Fela Solis
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Elias-Fela Solis
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
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Your land is one point inside Elias-Fela Solis
Everything above resolves to Elias-Fela Solis as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 151 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Starr 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 Elias-Fela Solis Average
Elias-Fela Solis Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Elias-Fela Solis
- ●One soil character for all of Elias-Fela Solis
- ●Frost dates read at Elias-Fela Solis's scale: Jan 21 to Dec 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Elias-Fela Solis's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Elias-Fela Solis
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Elias-Fela Solis, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Elias-Fela Solis averages can't show:
We read public map data around Elias-Fela Solis — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Elias-Fela Solis average
How we know this about Elias-Fela Solis
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 Starr 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 Elias-Fela Solis
When does frost risk typically end in Elias-Fela Solis?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Elias-Fela Solis typically lands around Jan 21, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Elias-Fela Solis?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Elias-Fela Solis 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 322 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Elias-Fela Solis?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Elias-Fela Solis sees about 322 frost-free days — roughly Jan 21 through Dec 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 11 to Nov 25, about 287 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Elias-Fela Solis?
The federal record around Elias-Fela Solis shows 21 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (13), the nearest Brownfields record about 2.4 miles 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 Elias-Fela Solis?
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 Elias-Fela Solis's scale — its 9b band and its 322-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Elias-Fela Solis'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 Elias-Fela Solis’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Elias-Fela Solis's own scale — the 151 acres it covers and 21 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Elias-Fela Solis's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 21 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Elias-Fela Solis, the closest Brownfields record about 2.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Elias-Fela Solis's boundary and the 151 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~322-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Elias-Fela Solis's own centroid, the Southern Texas PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Elias-Fela Solis has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Starr County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Elias-Fela Solis's 151 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Starr County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Starr 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 Starr County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Elias-Fela Solis's 151 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Elias-Fela Solis you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 151 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 2.4 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 Elias-Fela Solis-wide figureread your own land →