Fairview, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Fairview, 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 Fairview 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 Fairview — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Fairview — the short answer
Fairview, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 276 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 23
- Collin County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- Collin County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~276
- Collin County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 6K 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 Collin County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Fairview's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fairview's 276-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fairview
Each reading below is measured for Fairview itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsFairview runs about 276 days between hard freezes (read from Collin County, the closest normal to Fairview) — 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
MeasuredFairview 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 Fairview is in
Fairview sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Fairview's own centroid rather than borrowed from Collin County.
What Grows in Fairview
Every plant below cleared Fairview's own zone 8b and its 276-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fairview?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — 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 Fairview
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fairview. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FAIRVIEW FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- WILSON CREEK LSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- TXDOT MAINTENANCE FACILITY 18 779Underground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- MEDICAL CITY MCKINNEYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- MEDICAL CITY MCKINNEYBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- TOWN OF FAIRVIEWPFAS · 1.9 mi
- 7-ELEVEN 33276Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- WALMART NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET 3574Brownfields · 2.0 mi
- WAL MART NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET NO 3574Brownfields · 2.0 mi
- SIMPSON STRONG TIE MCKINNEY FACILITYBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- TXI OPERATIONS, LPToxics Release Inventory · 2.2 mi
- RIDGEVIEW MEMORIAL PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fairview'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 Fairview.
Total Sites
670
within ~10 miles of Fairview
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
8 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fairview
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fairview
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fairview, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Fairview — PFAS (11 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (461 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Fairview
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 Fairview average
Your land is one point inside Fairview
Everything above resolves to Fairview as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 6K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Collin 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 Fairview Average
Fairview Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Fairview
- ●One soil character for all of Fairview
- ●Frost dates read at Fairview's scale: Feb 23 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fairview's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fairview
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fairview, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Fairview averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fairview — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fairview average
How we know this about Fairview
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 Collin 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 Fairview
When does frost risk typically end in Fairview?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fairview typically lands around Feb 23, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Fairview?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fairview typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 276 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fairview?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fairview sees about 276 frost-free days — roughly Feb 23 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 16 to Nov 12, about 241 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fairview?
The federal record around Fairview runs heavier than most — 670 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (461), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Fairview?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fairview's scale — its 8b band and its 276-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fairview'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 Fairview’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Fairview's own scale — the 5,683 acres it covers and 670 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fairview's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 670 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fairview, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fairview's boundary and the 5,683 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~276-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Fairview's own centroid, the Texas Blackland PrairiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Fairview has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Collin County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Fairview's 5,683 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Collin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Collin 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 Collin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fairview's 5,683 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fairview you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,683 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 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 Fairview-wide figureread your own land →
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