Guerra, 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.
Expect okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Guerra, 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 Guerra 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 Guerra — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Guerra — the short answer
Guerra, Texas: USDA zone 9b, about 329 days between hard freezes, across 134 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 25
- Jim Hogg County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 20
- Jim Hogg County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~329
- Jim Hogg County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 134 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 Jim Hogg County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Guerra's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Guerra's 329-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Guerra
Each reading below is measured for Guerra itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsGuerra runs about 329 days between hard freezes (read from Jim Hogg County, the closest normal to Guerra) — 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
MeasuredGuerra 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 Guerra is in
Guerra sits in the Southern Texas Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Guerra's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Jim Hogg County is mostly Western Gulf Coastal Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Guerra
Every plant below cleared Guerra's own zone 9b and its 329-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Guerra?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
Environmental Check
No contamination sources found near Guerra
We checked 9 federal environmental databases and found no recorded contamination sites in this area. A clean starting point for growing.
Your land is one point inside Guerra
Everything above resolves to Guerra as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 134 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Jim Hogg 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 Guerra Average
Guerra Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Guerra
- ●One soil character for all of Guerra
- ●Frost dates read at Guerra's scale: Jan 25 to Dec 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Guerra's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Guerra
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Guerra, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Guerra averages can't show:
We read public map data around Guerra — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Guerra average
How we know this about Guerra
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 Jim Hogg 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 Guerra
When does frost risk typically end in Guerra?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Guerra typically lands around Jan 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Guerra?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Guerra typically arrives around Dec 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 6, so the watching starts about Nov 20 — about 329 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Guerra?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Guerra sees about 329 frost-free days — roughly Jan 25 through Dec 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 15 to Dec 6, about 294 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Guerra?
No database can certify soil, but the federal record here is clean: we checked all 9 federal contamination source types and found no documented sites within the search radii around Guerra. That means nothing is on record — not that the land is certified clean — so a one-time soil test is still the way to know your own yard's history.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Guerra?
From about Nov 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 Dec 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Guerra's scale — its 9b band and its 329-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Guerra'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 Guerra’s own scale
4 of the readings below were taken at Guerra's own scale — the 134 acres it covers; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Guerra's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Guerra's boundary and the 134 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~329-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Guerra sits in the Southern Texas Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Guerra has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Jim Hogg County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Guerra's 134 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jim Hogg County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jim Hogg 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 Jim Hogg County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Guerra's 134 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Guerra you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 134 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How much sun your beds actually get once the trees leaf outmeasuring sun honestly →
- 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 Guerra-wide figureread your own land →
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