Honey Grove, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Honey Grove, 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 Honey Grove lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Honey Grove — the short answer
Honey Grove, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 264 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 3
- Fannin County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- Fannin County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~264
- Fannin County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 2K 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 Fannin County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Honey Grove's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Honey Grove's 264-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Honey Grove
Each reading below is measured for Honey Grove itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsHoney Grove runs about 264 days between hard freezes (read from Fannin County, the closest normal to Honey Grove) — 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
MeasuredHoney Grove 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 Honey Grove is in
Honey Grove sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Honey Grove's own centroid rather than borrowed from Fannin County.
What Grows in Honey Grove
Every plant below cleared Honey Grove's own zone 8a and its 264-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Honey Grove?
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 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 3 (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 Honey Grove
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Honey Grove. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- REESES ZIP GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- HALL-VOYER FOUNDATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- HONEY GROVE ISDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- HONEY GROVE GAS AND GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- 378 FRONTIERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- KWIK CHEK 27Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- MOON MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- HELENA CHEMCIAL COBrownfields · 3.7 mi
- BOIS D ARC MUDPFAS · 4.8 mi
- USDA USFS R08 CADDO DISTRICT CADDO WCBrownfields · 6.5 mi
- COUNTRY ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.6 mi
- PJ TRAILERSToxics Release Inventory · 9.8 mi
1 more site is on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Honey Grove'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 Honey Grove.
Total Sites
13
within ~10 miles of Honey Grove
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Honey Grove
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Honey Grove
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 Honey Grove
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 Honey Grove average
Your land is one point inside Honey Grove
Everything above resolves to Honey Grove as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Fannin County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’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 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 Honey Grove Average
Honey Grove Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Honey Grove
- ●One soil character for all of Honey Grove
- ●Frost dates read at Honey Grove's scale: Mar 3 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Honey Grove's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Honey Grove
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Honey Grove, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Honey Grove averages can't show:
We read public map data around Honey Grove — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Honey Grove average
How we know this about Honey Grove
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 Fannin 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 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 Honey Grove
When does frost risk typically end in Honey Grove?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Honey Grove typically lands around Mar 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Honey Grove?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Honey Grove 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 264 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Honey Grove?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Honey Grove sees about 264 frost-free days — roughly Mar 3 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 24 to Nov 8, about 229 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Honey Grove?
The federal record around Honey Grove shows 13 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (8), 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 Honey Grove?
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 Honey Grove's scale — its 8a band and its 264-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Honey Grove'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 Honey Grove’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Honey Grove's own scale — the 1,909 acres it covers and 13 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Honey Grove's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 13 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Honey Grove, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Honey Grove's boundary and the 1,909 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~264-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Honey Grove's own centroid, the Texas Blackland PrairiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Honey Grove has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Fannin County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Honey Grove's 1,909 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Fannin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Fannin 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 Fannin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Honey Grove's 1,909 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Honey Grove you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,909 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 Honey Grove-wide figureread your own land →
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