Industry, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Industry, 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 Industry lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Industry — the short answer
Industry, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 304 days between hard freezes, across 683 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 4
- Austin County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 5
- Austin County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~304
- Austin County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 683 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 Austin County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Industry's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Industry's 304-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Industry
Each reading below is measured for Industry itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsIndustry runs about 304 days between hard freezes (read from Austin County, the closest normal to Industry) — 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
MeasuredIndustry 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 Industry is in
Industry sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Industry's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Austin County is mostly Western Gulf Coastal Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Industry
Every plant below cleared Industry's own zone 9a and its 304-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Industry?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 5 — 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 Industry
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Industry. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DIAMOND K & SUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- LINDEMANN STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- INDUSTRY TELEPHONEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- WELCOME STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- NEWSPEAK, LLCBrownfields · 5.2 mi
- AP-66-05-702Nitrate · 5.4 mi
- E C MINSSEN STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- ERNIES QUICK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- AP-59-61-402Nitrate · 6.8 mi
- AP-66-05-801Nitrate · 6.8 mi
- AP-66-05-901Nitrate · 7.1 mi
- AP-59-60-702Nitrate · 7.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Industry'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 Industry.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Industry
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Industry
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Industry, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 26 sites within ~10 miles of Industry. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Industry
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 Industry average
Your land is one point inside Industry
Everything above resolves to Industry as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 683 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Austin 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 Industry Average
Industry Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Industry
- ●One soil character for all of Industry
- ●Frost dates read at Industry's scale: Feb 4 to Dec 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Industry's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Industry
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Industry, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Industry averages can't show:
We read public map data around Industry — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Industry average
How we know this about Industry
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 Austin 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 Industry
When does frost risk typically end in Industry?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Industry typically lands around Feb 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Industry?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Industry typically arrives around Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 21, so the watching starts about Nov 5 — about 304 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Industry?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Industry sees about 304 frost-free days — roughly Feb 4 through Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 25 to Nov 21, about 269 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Industry?
The federal record around Industry is light — 36 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (26), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Industry?
From about Nov 5 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Industry's scale — its 9a band and its 304-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Industry'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 Industry’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Industry's own scale — the 683 acres it covers and 36 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Industry's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 36 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Industry, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Industry's boundary and the 683 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~304-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Industry sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Industry has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Austin County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Industry's 683 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Austin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Austin 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 Austin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Industry's 683 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Industry you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 683 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 Industry-wide figureread your own land →
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