Pecan Plantation, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Pecan Plantation, 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 Pecan Plantation lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pecan Plantation — the short answer
Pecan Plantation, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 273 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 25
- Hood County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 25
- Hood County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~273
- Hood County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Hood County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Pecan Plantation's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pecan Plantation's 273-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pecan Plantation
Each reading below is measured for Pecan Plantation itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsPecan Plantation runs about 273 days between hard freezes (read from Hood County, the closest normal to Pecan Plantation) — 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
MeasuredPecan Plantation 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 Pecan Plantation is in
Pecan Plantation sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Pecan Plantation's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hood County.
What Grows in Pecan Plantation
Every plant below cleared Pecan Plantation's own zone 8b and its 273-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pecan Plantation?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 25 — 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 Pecan Plantation
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pecan Plantation. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PECAN FOODS 101Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PECAN PLANTATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- TOMMYS 16Underground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- COWTOWN GAS PROCESSING PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 2.6 mi
- PECAN PLANTATION MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- FALL CREEK STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- TOMMYS 1Underground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- LAST CHANCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- OBISUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- INGRAM RAINBOW PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- HULK SERVICES OFFICEBrownfields · 5.1 mi
- WOLF HOLLOW I, LPBrownfields · 5.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pecan Plantation'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 Pecan Plantation.
Total Sites
104
within ~10 miles of Pecan Plantation
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pecan Plantation
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pecan Plantation
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pecan Plantation, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pecan Plantation — PFAS (5 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (76 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Pecan Plantation
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 Pecan Plantation average
Your land is one point inside Pecan Plantation
Everything above resolves to Pecan Plantation as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 5K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Hood County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’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 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 Pecan Plantation Average
Pecan Plantation Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Pecan Plantation
- ●One soil character for all of Pecan Plantation
- ●Frost dates read at Pecan Plantation's scale: Feb 25 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pecan Plantation's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pecan Plantation
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pecan Plantation, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pecan Plantation averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pecan Plantation — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pecan Plantation average
How we know this about Pecan Plantation
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 Hood 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 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 Pecan Plantation
When does frost risk typically end in Pecan Plantation?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pecan Plantation 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 Pecan Plantation?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pecan Plantation typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 273 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pecan Plantation?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pecan Plantation sees about 273 frost-free days — roughly Feb 25 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 18 to Nov 11, about 238 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pecan Plantation?
The federal record around Pecan Plantation is a meaningful one — 104 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (76), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Pecan Plantation?
From about Oct 26 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pecan Plantation's scale — its 8b band and its 273-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pecan Plantation'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 Pecan Plantation’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Pecan Plantation's own scale — the 4,752 acres it covers and 104 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pecan Plantation's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 104 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pecan Plantation, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pecan Plantation's boundary and the 4,752 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~273-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pecan Plantation's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Pecan Plantation has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Hood County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pecan Plantation's 4,752 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hood County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hood 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 Hood County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pecan Plantation's 4,752 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pecan Plantation you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,752 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Pecan Plantation-wide figureread your own land →
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