Lipscomb, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Lipscomb, 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 Lipscomb 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 Lipscomb — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lipscomb — the short answer
Lipscomb, Texas: USDA zone 6b, about 206 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~206
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 6b is Lipscomb's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lipscomb's 206-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lipscomb
Each reading below is measured for Lipscomb itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLipscomb runs about 206 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
MeasuredLipscomb sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Lipscomb is in
Lipscomb sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lipscomb's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lipscomb County.
What Grows in Lipscomb
Every plant below cleared Lipscomb's own zone 6b and its 206-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lipscomb?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Lipscomb
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lipscomb. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HIGGINS AIRPORT SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- ABANDONEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- O&B TANKUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- FOLLETT-LIPSCOMB COUNTY AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- DARROUZETT PUMP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- ANSON TRANSPORTATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- INDLAND PURCHASING & TRANSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- LIPSCOMB COUNTY PCT 2Underground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- PRECINCT 3 BARNUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- SHERIFFS OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- ROSS G ZENORUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- BYBEE DRILLINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lipscomb'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 Lipscomb.
Total Sites
28
within ~10 miles of Lipscomb
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 concentrated animal feeding operation
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lipscomb
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lipscomb
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lipscomb, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 19 sites within ~10 miles of Lipscomb. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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 Lipscomb
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 Lipscomb average
Your land is one point inside Lipscomb
Everything above resolves to Lipscomb as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Lipscomb Average
Lipscomb Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lipscomb
- ●One soil character for all of Lipscomb
- ●Frost dates read at Lipscomb's scale: Apr 6 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lipscomb's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lipscomb
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lipscomb, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lipscomb averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lipscomb — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lipscomb average
How we know this about Lipscomb
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 Lipscomb’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 Lipscomb
When does frost risk typically end in Lipscomb?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lipscomb typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Lipscomb?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lipscomb typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 206 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lipscomb?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lipscomb sees about 206 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 15, about 171 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lipscomb?
The federal record around Lipscomb is light — 28 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (19), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.9 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 Lipscomb?
From about Sep 29 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 Oct 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 Oct 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lipscomb's scale — its 6b band and its 206-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lipscomb'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 Lipscomb’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lipscomb's own scale — its own ~206-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,401 acres it covers and 28 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lipscomb's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lipscomb's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Oct 29 and the ~206-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 28 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lipscomb, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lipscomb's boundary and the 2,401 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~206-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lipscomb's own centroid, the Southwestern TablelandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lipscomb's 2,401 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lipscomb County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lipscomb 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 Lipscomb County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lipscomb's 2,401 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lipscomb you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,401 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.9 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 Lipscomb-wide figureread your own land →
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