Lipan, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Lipan, 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 Lipan lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lipan — the short answer
Lipan, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 273 days between hard freezes, across 679 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 25
- Hood County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 25
- Hood County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~273
- Hood County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 679 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 Hood County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Lipan's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lipan's 273-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lipan
Each reading below is measured for Lipan itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLipan runs about 273 days between hard freezes (read from Hood County, the closest normal to Lipan) — 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
MeasuredLipan 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 Lipan is in
Lipan sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lipan's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hood County.
What Grows in Lipan
Every plant below cleared Lipan's own zone 8b and its 273-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lipan?
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 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Lipan
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lipan. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CIRCLE H 2Underground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- G & L EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- B & B FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- HOOD COUNTY PRECINCT 1 BARNUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- PARKER COUNTY SUD SURFACEPFAS · 1.0 mi
- MAVERICK TRAVEL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.1 mi
- STRIPES 2434Underground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- GATEWAY 42Underground Storage Tanks · 7.3 mi
- ASPHALT MATERIALS INCBrownfields · 8.1 mi
- SANTO MAIN N RPTR BLDG T36217Underground Storage Tanks · 9.3 mi
- ANDERSON DAVID FUnderground Storage Tanks · 10.0 mi
Measured from Lipan'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 Lipan.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lipan
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.
- •PFAS do not break down in groundwater. Irrigate from a tested source.
Check your specific parcel in Lipan
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 Lipan average
Your land is one point inside Lipan
Everything above resolves to Lipan as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 679 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Hood 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 Lipan Average
Lipan Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Lipan
- ●One soil character for all of Lipan
- ●Frost dates read at Lipan's scale: Feb 25 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lipan's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lipan
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lipan, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lipan averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lipan — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lipan average
How we know this about Lipan
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 Hood 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 Lipan
When does frost risk typically end in Lipan?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lipan typically lands around Feb 25, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Lipan?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lipan typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 273 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lipan?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lipan sees about 273 frost-free days — roughly Feb 25 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 18 to Nov 11, about 238 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lipan?
The federal record around Lipan shows 11 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (9), 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 Lipan?
From about Oct 26 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lipan's scale — its 8b band and its 273-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lipan'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 Lipan’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Lipan's own scale — the 679 acres it covers and 11 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lipan's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 11 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lipan, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lipan's boundary and the 679 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~273-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lipan's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Lipan has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Hood County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lipan's 679 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hood County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hood 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 Hood County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lipan's 679 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lipan you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 679 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 Lipan-wide figureread your own land →
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