Goree, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Goree, 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 Goree 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 Goree — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Goree — the short answer
Goree, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 253 days between hard freezes, across 928 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 11
- 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
- ~253
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 928 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 Goree's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Goree's 253-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Goree
Each reading below is measured for Goree itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGoree runs about 253 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
MeasuredGoree 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 Goree is in
Goree sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Goree's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Knox County is mostly Southwestern Tablelands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Goree
Every plant below cleared Goree's own zone 8a and its 253-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Goree?
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 Feb 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 11 (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 Goree
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Goree. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MOORE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTSBrownfields · 5.7 mi
- RUSSELL PENICKUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- RON LANEY OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- COLLINS FINA SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- ALLSUPS 104Underground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- P & W SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- GUINNS TIN & PLUMBINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- RAS TRUCKINGBrownfields · 8.1 mi
- Brushy Creek-1Mining · 9.9 mi
Measured from Goree'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 Goree.
Total Sites
9
within ~10 miles of Goree
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 mining site (prospects, none worked)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Goree
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.
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
Check your specific parcel in Goree
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 Goree average
Your land is one point inside Goree
Everything above resolves to Goree as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 928 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 Goree Average
Goree Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Goree
- ●One soil character for all of Goree
- ●Frost dates read at Goree's scale: Mar 11 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Goree's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Goree
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Goree, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Goree averages can't show:
We read public map data around Goree — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Goree average
How we know this about Goree
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 Goree’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 Goree
When does frost risk typically end in Goree?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Goree typically lands around Mar 11, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Goree?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Goree 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 253 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Goree?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Goree sees about 253 frost-free days — roughly Mar 11 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 1 to Nov 5, about 218 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Goree?
The federal record around Goree is light — 9 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (6), the nearest Brownfields record about 5.7 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 Goree?
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 Goree's scale — its 8a band and its 253-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Goree'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 Goree’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Goree's own scale — its own ~253-day season between 28°F freezes, the 928 acres it covers and 9 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Goree's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Goree's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 11 and Nov 19 and the ~253-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 9 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Goree, the closest Brownfields record about 5.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Goree's boundary and the 928 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~253-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Goree 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 Goree's 928 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Knox County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Knox 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 Knox County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Goree's 928 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Goree you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 928 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 5.7 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 Goree-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across TexasGoree sits outside our named growing regions, so Texas as a whole is its closest context here.