Lampasas, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Expect cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lampasas, 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 Lampasas lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lampasas — the short answer
Lampasas, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 283 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 19
- Lampasas County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 29
- Lampasas County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~283
- Lampasas County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 5K 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 Lampasas County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Lampasas's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lampasas's 283-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lampasas
Each reading below is measured for Lampasas itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLampasas runs about 283 days between hard freezes (read from Lampasas County, the closest normal to Lampasas) — 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
MeasuredLampasas sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Lampasas is in
Lampasas sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lampasas's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lampasas County.
What Grows in Lampasas
Every plant below cleared Lampasas's own zone 8b and its 283-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lampasas?
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 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 29 — 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 Lampasas
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lampasas. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GARY BROWN SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- EBCO SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- LUCK KEY MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAMPASASUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- ZIP CLEANERSBrownfields · 300 ft
- MEDICAL FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- GOLDEN FRIED CHICKENUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- PLATINUM MATRIXUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- V G MULLINSUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- CORNER STORE 1553Underground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- LAMPASAS MOTORUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- ALON 113Underground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lampasas'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 Lampasas.
Total Sites
70
within ~10 miles of Lampasas
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lampasas
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lampasas
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lampasas, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 58 sites within ~10 miles of Lampasas. 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 Lampasas
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 Lampasas average
Your land is one point inside Lampasas
Everything above resolves to Lampasas as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 5K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Lampasas 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 Lampasas Average
Lampasas Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Lampasas
- ●One soil character for all of Lampasas
- ●Frost dates read at Lampasas's scale: Feb 19 to Nov 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lampasas's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lampasas
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lampasas, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lampasas averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lampasas — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lampasas average
How we know this about Lampasas
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 Lampasas 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 Lampasas
When does frost risk typically end in Lampasas?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lampasas typically lands around Feb 19, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Lampasas?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lampasas typically arrives around Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 15, so the watching starts about Oct 30 — about 283 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lampasas?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lampasas sees about 283 frost-free days — roughly Feb 19 through Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 12 to Nov 15, about 248 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lampasas?
The federal record around Lampasas shows 70 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (58), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lampasas?
From about Oct 30 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lampasas's scale — its 8b band and its 283-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lampasas'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 Lampasas’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Lampasas's own scale — the 4,730 acres it covers and 70 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lampasas's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 70 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lampasas, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lampasas's boundary and the 4,730 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~283-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lampasas's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Lampasas has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Lampasas County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lampasas's 4,730 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lampasas County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lampasas 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 Lampasas County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lampasas's 4,730 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lampasas you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,730 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lampasas-wide figureread your own land →
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