Holliday, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Holliday, 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 Holliday 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 Holliday — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Holliday — the short answer
Holliday, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 260 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~260
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 2K 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 Holliday's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Holliday's 260-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Holliday
Each reading below is measured for Holliday itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHolliday runs about 260 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredHolliday 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 Holliday is in
Holliday sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Holliday's own centroid rather than borrowed from Archer County.
What Grows in Holliday
Every plant below cleared Holliday's own zone 8a and its 260-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Holliday?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 22 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Holliday
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Holliday. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FORMER SKELLY STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- AYRES TRUCKINGBrownfields · 1700 ft
- HOLLIDAY STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- PURSUR OIL SERVICESBrownfields · 1900 ft
- RTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- HOLLIDAY ISDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- ALLSUPS 273Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- HOLIDAY WAREHOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- LARRYS TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- MITCHELL FEEDLOTCAFO · 1.5 mi
- KAMAY Y STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- Mount BarryMining · 5.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Holliday'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 Holliday.
Total Sites
125
within ~10 miles of Holliday
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Holliday
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Holliday
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Holliday, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 102 sites within ~10 miles of Holliday. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Holliday
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 Holliday average
Your land is one point inside Holliday
Everything above resolves to Holliday as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Holliday Average
Holliday Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Holliday
- ●One soil character for all of Holliday
- ●Frost dates read at Holliday's scale: Mar 7 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Holliday's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Holliday
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Holliday, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Holliday averages can't show:
We read public map data around Holliday — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Holliday average
How we know this about Holliday
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 Holliday’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 Holliday
When does frost risk typically end in Holliday?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Holliday typically lands around Mar 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Holliday?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Holliday typically arrives around Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 8, so the watching starts about Oct 23 — about 260 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Holliday?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Holliday sees about 260 frost-free days — roughly Mar 7 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 28 to Nov 8, about 225 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Holliday?
The federal record around Holliday shows 125 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (102), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Holliday?
From about Oct 23 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Holliday's scale — its 8a band and its 260-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Holliday'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 Holliday’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Holliday's own scale — its own ~260-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,599 acres it covers and 125 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Holliday's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Holliday's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 7 and Nov 22 and the ~260-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 125 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Holliday, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Holliday's boundary and the 1,599 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~260-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Holliday's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Holliday's 1,599 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Archer County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Archer 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 Archer County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Holliday's 1,599 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Holliday you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,599 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Holliday-wide figureread your own land →
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