Hermleigh, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Hermleigh, 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 Hermleigh 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 Hermleigh — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Hermleigh — the short answer
Hermleigh, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 258 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~258
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 6K 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 Hermleigh's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hermleigh's 258-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hermleigh
Each reading below is measured for Hermleigh itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHermleigh runs about 258 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
MeasuredHermleigh 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 Hermleigh is in
Hermleigh sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Hermleigh's own centroid rather than borrowed from Scurry County.
What Grows in Hermleigh
Every plant below cleared Hermleigh's own zone 8a and its 258-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hermleigh?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 21 — 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 Hermleigh
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hermleigh. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- M&M FUELSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- ALLSUPS 276Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- T&K DAIRYCAFO · 5.9 mi
- TDCJ DANIEL UNIT WAREHOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- TRACTOR SUPPLY #1680Brownfields · 8.0 mi
- SNYDERToxics Release Inventory · 8.3 mi
- CENTRAL ROLLING PLAINS CO-OP GINUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.3 mi
- STRIPES 5059Underground Storage Tanks · 8.9 mi
- BEST BUY MOTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.0 mi
- HACKS STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.4 mi
- MUSKET COLORADO CITY CRUDE INJECTION STATIONToxics Release Inventory · 9.5 mi
- SNYDER TRUCK & TRACTORUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hermleigh'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 Hermleigh.
Total Sites
20
within ~10 miles of Hermleigh
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hermleigh
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hermleigh
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.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Hermleigh
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 Hermleigh average
Your land is one point inside Hermleigh
Everything above resolves to Hermleigh as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 6K 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 Hermleigh Average
Hermleigh Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Hermleigh
- ●One soil character for all of Hermleigh
- ●Frost dates read at Hermleigh's scale: Mar 8 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hermleigh's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hermleigh
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hermleigh, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Hermleigh — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hermleigh average
How we know this about Hermleigh
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 Hermleigh’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 Hermleigh
When does frost risk typically end in Hermleigh?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hermleigh typically lands around Mar 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Hermleigh?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hermleigh typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 258 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hermleigh?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hermleigh sees about 258 frost-free days — roughly Mar 8 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 29 to Nov 7, about 223 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hermleigh?
The federal record around Hermleigh is light — 20 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (15), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Hermleigh?
From about Oct 22 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hermleigh's scale — its 8a band and its 258-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hermleigh'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 Hermleigh’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Hermleigh's own scale — its own ~258-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,792 acres it covers and 20 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hermleigh's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hermleigh's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 8 and Nov 21 and the ~258-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 20 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hermleigh, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hermleigh's boundary and the 5,792 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~258-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hermleigh's own centroid, the Southwestern TablelandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hermleigh's 5,792 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Scurry County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Scurry 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 Scurry County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hermleigh's 5,792 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hermleigh you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,792 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Hermleigh-wide figureread your own land →
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