Lometa, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Lometa, 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 Lometa lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lometa — the short answer
Lometa, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 283 days between hard freezes, across 538 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
- 538 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 Lometa's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lometa's 283-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lometa
Each reading below is measured for Lometa itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLometa runs about 283 days between hard freezes (read from Lampasas County, the closest normal to Lometa) — 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
MeasuredLometa 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 Lometa is in
Lometa sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lometa's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lampasas County.
What Grows in Lometa
Every plant below cleared Lometa'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 Lometa?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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. 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 Lometa
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lometa. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BIGS 104Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- HOT MIX PLANT S/N 1345-18Toxics Release Inventory · 1900 ft
- PORTABLE CRUSHERToxics Release Inventory · 6.0 mi
- SALADO QUARRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- CITY OF LAMPASASUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.0 mi
- LAMPASAS GOLF COURSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.0 mi
- HYATT FEED & SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.0 mi
- M & M QUICK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.0 mi
- SMART DRILLING AND SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.0 mi
- TXDOT MAINTENANCE FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.0 mi
- LAMPASAS TOOL HOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.0 mi
- AT&SF RAILWAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lometa'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 Lometa.
Total Sites
23
within ~10 miles of Lometa
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lometa
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Lometa
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 Lometa average
Your land is one point inside Lometa
Everything above resolves to Lometa as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 538 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 Lometa Average
Lometa Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Lometa
- ●One soil character for all of Lometa
- ●Frost dates read at Lometa's scale: Feb 19 to Nov 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lometa's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lometa
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lometa, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lometa averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lometa — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lometa average
How we know this about Lometa
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 Lometa
When does frost risk typically end in Lometa?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lometa 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 Lometa?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lometa 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 Lometa?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lometa 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 Lometa?
The federal record around Lometa is light — 23 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (20), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Lometa?
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 Lometa's scale — its 8b band and its 283-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lometa'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 Lometa’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Lometa's own scale — the 538 acres it covers and 23 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lometa's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 23 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lometa, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lometa's boundary and the 538 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 Lometa's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Lometa 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 Lometa's 538 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 Lometa's 538 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lometa 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 Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Lometa-wide figureread your own land →
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