Maypearl, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Maypearl, 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 Maypearl lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Maypearl — the short answer
Maypearl, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 285 days between hard freezes, across 484 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 17
- Ellis County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 29
- Ellis County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~285
- Ellis County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 484 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 Ellis County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Maypearl's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Maypearl's 285-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Maypearl
Each reading below is measured for Maypearl itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsMaypearl runs about 285 days between hard freezes (read from Ellis County, the closest normal to Maypearl) — 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
MeasuredMaypearl 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 Maypearl is in
Maypearl sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Maypearl's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ellis County.
What Grows in Maypearl
Every plant below cleared Maypearl's own zone 8b and its 285-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Maypearl?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 17 (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. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Maypearl
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Maypearl. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MAYPEARL QUICK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- MAYPEARL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- BROOKSHIRE BROTHERS 86Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- TEXAS SOARING ASSOCUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- UNIVAR SOLUTIONS SSC FACILITYBrownfields · 5.3 mi
- UNIVAR SOLUTIONS SSC FACILITYToxics Release Inventory · 5.3 mi
- SPANISH GRANT SUBDIVISIONPFAS · 6.3 mi
- BUENA VISTA BETHEL SUDPFAS · 6.3 mi
- BOLTON JAMESUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.9 mi
- TDCJ ESTES UNITUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.3 mi
- CORRECTIONS CORP OF AMERICABrownfields · 8.3 mi
- TXI - DOMINO PORTABLE 156Toxics Release Inventory · 8.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Maypearl'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 Maypearl.
Total Sites
32
within ~10 miles of Maypearl
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Maypearl
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Maypearl
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Maypearl, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Maypearl — PFAS (5 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (4 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Maypearl
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Maypearl
Everything above resolves to Maypearl as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 484 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Ellis 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 Maypearl Average
Maypearl Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Maypearl
- ●One soil character for all of Maypearl
- ●Frost dates read at Maypearl's scale: Feb 17 to Nov 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Maypearl's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Maypearl
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Maypearl, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Maypearl averages can't show:
We read public map data around Maypearl — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Maypearl average
How we know this about Maypearl
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 Ellis 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 Maypearl
When does frost risk typically end in Maypearl?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Maypearl typically lands around Feb 17, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Maypearl?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Maypearl 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 285 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Maypearl?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Maypearl sees about 285 frost-free days — roughly Feb 17 through Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 10 to Nov 15, about 250 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Maypearl?
The federal record around Maypearl is a meaningful one — 32 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (14), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Maypearl?
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 Maypearl's scale — its 8b band and its 285-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Maypearl'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 Maypearl’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Maypearl's own scale — the 484 acres it covers and 32 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Maypearl's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 32 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Maypearl, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Maypearl's boundary and the 484 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~285-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Maypearl's own centroid, the Texas Blackland PrairiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Maypearl has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Ellis County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Maypearl's 484 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ellis County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ellis 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 Ellis County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Maypearl's 484 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Maypearl you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 484 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Maypearl-wide figureread your own land →
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