Hollywood Park, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Hollywood Park, 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 Hollywood Park 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 Hollywood Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Hollywood Park — the short answer
Hollywood Park, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 306 days between hard freezes, across 925 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 6
- Bexar County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 9
- Bexar County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~306
- Bexar County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 925 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 Bexar County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Hollywood Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hollywood Park's 306-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hollywood Park
Each reading below is measured for Hollywood Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsHollywood Park runs about 306 days between hard freezes (read from Bexar County, the closest normal to Hollywood Park) — 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
MeasuredHollywood Park sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Hollywood Park is in
Hollywood Park sits in the Edwards Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Hollywood Park's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Bexar County is mostly Texas Blackland Prairies. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Hollywood Park
Every plant below cleared Hollywood Park's own zone 9a and its 306-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hollywood Park?
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 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 9 — 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.
Documented around Hollywood Park
Survey cells within 31 miles of Hollywood Park checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 664 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hollywood Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hollywood Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AY-68-29-112 (Donella)Nitrate · 1800 ft
- FUELS & LUBRICANT RESEARCH LABORATORYSuperfund · 2600 ft
- CORNER STORE 1020Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- AY-68-29-113Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- 17119 SAN PEDROUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- CHARLIE MARTIN-HOLLYWOOD PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- HOLLYWOOD PARK AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- AY-68-29-109Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- E-Z MART 603Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- PARK PONTIAC GMC TRUCKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- COSTCO WHOLESALE 693Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- HILL COUNTRY DRY CLEANERSBrownfields · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hollywood Park'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 Hollywood Park.
Total Sites
1,537
within ~10 miles of Hollywood Park
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hollywood Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hollywood Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hollywood Park, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 1,000 sites within ~10 miles of Hollywood Park. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Hollywood Park
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 Hollywood Park average
Your land is one point inside Hollywood Park
Everything above resolves to Hollywood Park as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 925 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Bexar 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 Hollywood Park Average
Hollywood Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Hollywood Park
- ●One soil character for all of Hollywood Park
- ●Frost dates read at Hollywood Park's scale: Feb 6 to Dec 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hollywood Park's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hollywood Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hollywood Park, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hollywood Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hollywood Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hollywood Park average
How we know this about Hollywood Park
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 Bexar 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 Hollywood Park
When does frost risk typically end in Hollywood Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hollywood Park typically lands around Feb 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Hollywood Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hollywood Park typically arrives around Dec 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 25, so the watching starts about Nov 9 — about 306 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hollywood Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hollywood Park sees about 306 frost-free days — roughly Feb 6 through Dec 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 27 to Nov 25, about 271 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hollywood Park?
The federal record around Hollywood Park is a meaningful one — 1,537 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,000), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Hollywood Park?
From about Nov 9 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hollywood Park's scale — its 9a band and its 306-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hollywood Park'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 Hollywood Park’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Hollywood Park's own scale — the 925 acres it covers and 1,537 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hollywood Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 1,537 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hollywood Park, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hollywood Park's boundary and the 925 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~306-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Hollywood Park sits in the Edwards Plateau — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Hollywood Park checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Hollywood Park has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Bexar County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hollywood Park's 925 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bexar County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bexar 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 Bexar County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hollywood Park's 925 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hollywood Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 925 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Hollywood Park-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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