Myra, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Myra, 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 Myra 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 Myra — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Myra — the short answer
Myra, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 259 days between hard freezes, across 327 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~259
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 327 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 8a is Myra's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Myra's 259-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Myra
Each reading below is measured for Myra itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMyra runs about 259 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
MeasuredMyra sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Myra is in
Myra sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Myra's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cooke County.
What Grows in Myra
Every plant below cleared Myra's own zone 8a and its 259-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Myra?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 22 — 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 Myra
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Myra. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DAIRY FARMERS OF AMERICAToxics Release Inventory · 550 ft
- COOKE COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- HA-19-22-707Nitrate · 2.8 mi
- BAYERS KOLONIALWARENUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- SCHILLING OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- BILL MILLER EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- HOEBAUERS FOOD & LOCKER SERUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- QUICKWAY FOOD STORE 16Underground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- MUENSTER TELEPHONEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- NEILS SUBWAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- HOFBAUER TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- CLOSED GULF STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Myra'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 Myra.
Total Sites
137
within ~10 miles of Myra
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
17 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Myra
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Myra
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Myra, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Myra — Toxics Release Inventory (17 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (102 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Myra
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 Myra average
Your land is one point inside Myra
Everything above resolves to Myra as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 327 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 Myra Average
Myra Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Myra
- ●One soil character for all of Myra
- ●Frost dates read at Myra's scale: Mar 8 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Myra's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Myra
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Myra, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Myra averages can't show:
We read public map data around Myra — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Myra average
How we know this about Myra
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 Myra’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 Myra
When does frost risk typically end in Myra?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Myra typically lands around Mar 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Myra?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Myra typically arrives around Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 8, so the watching starts about Oct 23 — about 259 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Myra?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Myra sees about 259 frost-free days — roughly Mar 8 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 29 to Nov 8, about 224 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Myra?
The federal record around Myra shows 137 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (102), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory 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 Myra?
From about Oct 23 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Myra's scale — its 8a band and its 259-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Myra'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 Myra’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Myra's own scale — its own ~259-day season between 28°F freezes, the 327 acres it covers and 137 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Myra's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Myra's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 8 and Nov 22 and the ~259-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 137 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Myra, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Myra's boundary and the 327 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~259-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Myra's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Myra's 327 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cooke County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cooke 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 Cooke County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Myra's 327 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Myra you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 327 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory 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 Myra-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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