New Fairview, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in New Fairview, 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 New Fairview 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 New Fairview — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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New Fairview — the short answer
New Fairview, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 266 days between hard freezes, across 12K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 3
- Wise County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 24
- Wise County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~266
- Wise County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 12K 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 Wise County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is New Fairview's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Fairview's 266-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Fairview
Each reading below is measured for New Fairview itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsNew Fairview runs about 266 days between hard freezes (read from Wise County, the closest normal to New Fairview) — 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
MeasuredNew Fairview 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 New Fairview is in
New Fairview sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at New Fairview's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wise County.
What Grows in New Fairview
Every plant below cleared New Fairview's own zone 8a and its 266-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Fairview?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 3 (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. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near New Fairview
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Fairview. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TAKE A BREAKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- MULTI CHEM GROUP LLCToxics Release Inventory · 2.1 mi
- CHAMPTION TECHNOLOGIES, INCToxics Release Inventory · 2.1 mi
- CHAMPIONX NEW FAIRVIEWBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- CONTINENTAL CARBONIC PRODUCTS-BRIDGEPORTToxics Release Inventory · 2.9 mi
- WAL-MART SUPERCENTER 4240Brownfields · 3.1 mi
- OLIVER CREEK STORE & GRILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- INDUSTRIAL CONCRETE CONSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- MODERN WELDING CO OF TXToxics Release Inventory · 4.3 mi
- TIMEOUT C-STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- VACANT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- BIG Z FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Fairview'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 New Fairview.
Total Sites
82
within ~10 miles of New Fairview
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
13 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Fairview
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Fairview
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Fairview, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 13 sites within ~10 miles of New Fairview. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 New Fairview
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 New Fairview average
Your land is one point inside New Fairview
Everything above resolves to New Fairview as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 12K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Wise 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 New Fairview Average
New Fairview Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across New Fairview
- ●One soil character for all of New Fairview
- ●Frost dates read at New Fairview's scale: Mar 3 to Nov 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Fairview's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Fairview
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Fairview, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Fairview averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Fairview — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Fairview average
How we know this about New Fairview
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 Wise 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 New Fairview
When does frost risk typically end in New Fairview?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Fairview typically lands around Mar 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in New Fairview?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Fairview 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 266 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Fairview?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Fairview sees about 266 frost-free days — roughly Mar 3 through Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 24 to Nov 10, about 231 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Fairview?
The federal record around New Fairview shows 82 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (41), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.6 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 New Fairview?
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 New Fairview's scale — its 8a band and its 266-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Fairview'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 New Fairview’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at New Fairview's own scale — the 12,107 acres it covers and 82 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Fairview's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 82 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Fairview, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Fairview's boundary and the 12,107 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~266-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Fairview's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — New Fairview has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Wise County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Fairview's 12,107 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wise County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wise 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 Wise County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Fairview's 12,107 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Fairview you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 12,107 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.6 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 New Fairview-wide figureread your own land →
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