Mount Pleasant, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Mount Pleasant, 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 Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Mount Pleasant — the short answer
Mount Pleasant, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 271 days between hard freezes, across 13K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 26
- Titus County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 24
- Titus County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~271
- Titus County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 13K 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 Titus County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Mount Pleasant's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mount Pleasant's 271-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mount Pleasant
Each reading below is measured for Mount Pleasant itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsMount Pleasant runs about 271 days between hard freezes (read from Titus County, the closest normal to Mount Pleasant) — 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
MeasuredMount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant is in
Mount Pleasant sits in the East Central Texas Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Mount Pleasant's own centroid rather than borrowed from Titus County.
What Grows in Mount Pleasant
Every plant below cleared Mount Pleasant's own zone 8b and its 271-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mount Pleasant?
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 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 24 — 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 Mount Pleasant
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mount Pleasant. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JACKSON OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- DAY & NITE FOODSUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- DISCOUNT MART 4Underground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- LAGDON OXYGENUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- PARKVIEW 572Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #1022Brownfields · 1300 ft
- TIGER EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- WALLACE TIREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- BILLY CRAIG SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- 1 STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- TITUS COUNTY JAILUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- EZ MART 4372Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mount Pleasant'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 Mount Pleasant.
Total Sites
199
within ~10 miles of Mount Pleasant
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
18 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mount Pleasant
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mount Pleasant
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mount Pleasant, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of Mount Pleasant. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Mount Pleasant
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 Mount Pleasant average
Your land is one point inside Mount Pleasant
Everything above resolves to Mount Pleasant as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 13K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Titus 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 Mount Pleasant Average
Mount Pleasant Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Mount Pleasant
- ●One soil character for all of Mount Pleasant
- ●Frost dates read at Mount Pleasant's scale: Feb 26 to Nov 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mount Pleasant's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mount Pleasant
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mount Pleasant, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mount Pleasant averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mount Pleasant — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mount Pleasant average
How we know this about Mount Pleasant
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 Titus 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 Mount Pleasant
When does frost risk typically end in Mount Pleasant?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mount Pleasant typically lands around Feb 26, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Mount Pleasant?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mount Pleasant typically arrives around Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 10, so the watching starts about Oct 25 — about 271 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mount Pleasant?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mount Pleasant sees about 271 frost-free days — roughly Feb 26 through Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 19 to Nov 10, about 236 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mount Pleasant?
The federal record around Mount Pleasant shows 199 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (122), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles 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 Mount Pleasant?
From about Oct 25 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mount Pleasant's scale — its 8b band and its 271-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mount Pleasant'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 Mount Pleasant’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Mount Pleasant's own scale — the 13,012 acres it covers and 199 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mount Pleasant's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 199 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mount Pleasant, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mount Pleasant's boundary and the 13,012 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~271-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mount Pleasant's own centroid, the East Central Texas PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Mount Pleasant has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Titus County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mount Pleasant's 13,012 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Titus County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Titus 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 Titus County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mount Pleasant's 13,012 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mount Pleasant you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 13,012 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 Mount Pleasant-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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