Lake Meredith Estates, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Lake Meredith Estates, 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 Lake Meredith Estates 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 Lake Meredith Estates — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lake Meredith Estates — the short answer
Lake Meredith Estates, Texas: USDA zone 7a, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 538 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 538 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 7a is Lake Meredith Estates's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lake Meredith Estates's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lake Meredith Estates
Each reading below is measured for Lake Meredith Estates itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLake Meredith Estates runs about 221 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
MeasuredLake Meredith Estates sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Lake Meredith Estates is in
Lake Meredith Estates sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lake Meredith Estates's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hutchinson County.
What Grows in Lake Meredith Estates
Every plant below cleared Lake Meredith Estates's own zone 7a and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lake Meredith Estates?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Lake Meredith Estates
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lake Meredith Estates. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ZOLLARS WELDINGBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- SANFORD COMPRESSOR STATIONBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- ALLSUPS 101Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- TAYLOR FOOD MART 2060Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- LOWES 29Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- FRITCH GASCARD 220301Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- 1 BURGERS BESTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- POWELLS TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- BOBBYS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LAKE MEREDITH NATL REC AREAToxics Release Inventory · 1.6 mi
- LAKE MEREDITH NATIONAL PARK SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- TAYLOR FOOD MART 2069Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lake Meredith Estates'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 Lake Meredith Estates.
Total Sites
29
within ~10 miles of Lake Meredith Estates
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lake Meredith Estates
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lake Meredith Estates
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lake Meredith Estates, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 3 sites within ~10 miles of Lake Meredith Estates. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Lake Meredith Estates
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 Lake Meredith Estates average
Your land is one point inside Lake Meredith Estates
Everything above resolves to Lake Meredith Estates as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 538 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 Lake Meredith Estates Average
Lake Meredith Estates Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Lake Meredith Estates
- ●One soil character for all of Lake Meredith Estates
- ●Frost dates read at Lake Meredith Estates's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lake Meredith Estates's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lake Meredith Estates
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lake Meredith Estates, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lake Meredith Estates averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lake Meredith Estates — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lake Meredith Estates average
How we know this about Lake Meredith Estates
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 Lake Meredith Estates’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 Lake Meredith Estates
When does frost risk typically end in Lake Meredith Estates?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Meredith Estates typically lands around Mar 30, 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 Apr 20.
When is the first frost in Lake Meredith Estates?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Meredith Estates typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lake Meredith Estates?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lake Meredith Estates sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 23, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lake Meredith Estates?
The federal record around Lake Meredith Estates is light — 29 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (16), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.7 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 Lake Meredith Estates?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lake Meredith Estates's scale — its 7a band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lake Meredith Estates'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 Lake Meredith Estates’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lake Meredith Estates's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 538 acres it covers and 29 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lake Meredith Estates's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lake Meredith Estates's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 6 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 29 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lake Meredith Estates, the closest Brownfields record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lake Meredith Estates's boundary and the 538 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lake Meredith Estates's own centroid, the Southwestern TablelandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lake Meredith Estates's 538 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hutchinson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hutchinson 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 Hutchinson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lake Meredith Estates's 538 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lake Meredith Estates you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 538 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.7 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 Lake Meredith Estates-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across TexasLake Meredith Estates sits outside our named growing regions, so Texas as a whole is its closest context here.