Omaha, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Omaha, 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 Omaha lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Omaha — the short answer
Omaha, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 274 days between hard freezes, across 929 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 25
- Morris County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- Morris County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~274
- Morris County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 929 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 Morris County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Omaha's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Omaha's 274-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Omaha
Each reading below is measured for Omaha itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsOmaha runs about 274 days between hard freezes (read from Morris County, the closest normal to Omaha) — 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
MeasuredOmaha 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 Omaha is in
Omaha sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Omaha's own centroid rather than borrowed from Morris County.
What Grows in Omaha
Every plant below cleared Omaha's own zone 8b and its 274-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Omaha?
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 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Omaha
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Omaha. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STAR MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- S MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- TU-16-51-401Nitrate · 1600 ft
- JOHN TOMASUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- TU-16-51-402Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- L & M STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- TU-16-50-607Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- RITE TRACK 11Underground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- PRUETTS FOODUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- TU-16-51-504Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- TU-16-51-201Nitrate · 4.0 mi
- TOP HAT INDUSTRIES INCToxics Release Inventory · 4.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Omaha'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 Omaha.
Total Sites
89
within ~10 miles of Omaha
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Omaha
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Omaha
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Omaha, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 32 sites within ~10 miles of Omaha. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Omaha
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 Omaha average
Your land is one point inside Omaha
Everything above resolves to Omaha as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 929 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Morris 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 Omaha Average
Omaha Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Omaha
- ●One soil character for all of Omaha
- ●Frost dates read at Omaha's scale: Feb 25 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Omaha's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Omaha
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Omaha, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Omaha averages can't show:
We read public map data around Omaha — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Omaha average
How we know this about Omaha
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 Morris 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 Omaha
When does frost risk typically end in Omaha?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Omaha typically lands around Feb 25, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Omaha?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Omaha typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 274 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Omaha?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Omaha sees about 274 frost-free days — roughly Feb 25 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 18 to Nov 12, about 239 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Omaha?
The federal record around Omaha shows 89 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (51), 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 Omaha?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Omaha's scale — its 8b band and its 274-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Omaha'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 Omaha’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Omaha's own scale — the 929 acres it covers and 89 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Omaha's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 89 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Omaha, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Omaha's boundary and the 929 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~274-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Omaha's own centroid, the South Central PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Omaha has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Morris County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Omaha's 929 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Morris County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Morris 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 Morris County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Omaha's 929 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Omaha you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 929 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 Omaha-wide figureread your own land →
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