Estelline, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Estelline, 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 Estelline lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Estelline — the short answer
Estelline, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 246 days between hard freezes, across 469 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~246
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 469 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 7b is Estelline's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Estelline's 246-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Estelline
Each reading below is measured for Estelline itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEstelline runs about 246 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
MeasuredEstelline sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Estelline is in
Estelline sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Estelline's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hall County.
What Grows in Estelline
Every plant below cleared Estelline's own zone 7b and its 246-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Estelline?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 17 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Estelline
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Estelline. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- B & W LIQUORUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
Measured from Estelline'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 Estelline.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Estelline
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
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Your land is one point inside Estelline
Everything above resolves to Estelline as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 469 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 Estelline Average
Estelline Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Estelline
- ●One soil character for all of Estelline
- ●Frost dates read at Estelline's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Estelline's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Estelline — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Estelline average
How we know this about Estelline
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 Estelline’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 Estelline
When does frost risk typically end in Estelline?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Estelline typically lands around Mar 16, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Estelline?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Estelline typically arrives around Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 3, so the watching starts about Oct 18 — about 246 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Estelline?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Estelline sees about 246 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Nov 3, about 211 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Estelline?
The federal record around Estelline is light — 1 documented site across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Estelline?
From about Oct 18 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Estelline's scale — its 7b band and its 246-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Estelline'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 Estelline’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Estelline's own scale — its own ~246-day season between 28°F freezes, the 469 acres it covers and 1 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Estelline's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Estelline's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 17 and the ~246-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Estelline, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Estelline's boundary and the 469 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~246-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Estelline's own centroid, the Southwestern TablelandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Estelline's 469 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hall County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hall 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 Hall County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Estelline's 469 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Estelline you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 469 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 Estelline-wide figureread your own land →
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