Point Blank, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Point Blank, 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 Point Blank lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Point Blank — the short answer
Point Blank, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 300 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 10
- San Jacinto County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 7
- San Jacinto County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~300
- San Jacinto County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 1K 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 San Jacinto County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Point Blank's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Point Blank's 300-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Point Blank
Each reading below is measured for Point Blank itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsPoint Blank runs about 300 days between hard freezes (read from San Jacinto County, the closest normal to Point Blank) — 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
MeasuredPoint Blank sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Point Blank is in
Point Blank sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Point Blank's own centroid rather than borrowed from San Jacinto County.
What Grows in Point Blank
Every plant below cleared Point Blank's own zone 9a and its 300-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Point Blank?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 7 — 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 Point Blank
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Point Blank. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FAMILY DOLLAR #9303Brownfields · 700 ft
- MIDWAY 23Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- BOBBYS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- KBS FOOD MART - KBS BAR & BBQ GRILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- RANDLES CONSTRUCTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- HWY 190 FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- WU-60-23-509Nitrate · 4.8 mi
- STREET BROTHERS READY MIXUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- WU-60-23-704Nitrate · 6.8 mi
- UT-60-24-111Nitrate · 6.9 mi
- INDIAN HILL MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.0 mi
- BROOKSHIRE BROTHERS 71Underground Storage Tanks · 7.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Point Blank'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 Point Blank.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Point Blank
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Point Blank
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Point Blank, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 4 sites within ~10 miles of Point Blank. 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.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Point Blank
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 Point Blank average
Your land is one point inside Point Blank
Everything above resolves to Point Blank as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from San Jacinto 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 Point Blank Average
Point Blank Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Point Blank
- ●One soil character for all of Point Blank
- ●Frost dates read at Point Blank's scale: Feb 10 to Dec 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Point Blank's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Point Blank
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Point Blank, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Point Blank averages can't show:
We read public map data around Point Blank — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Point Blank average
How we know this about Point Blank
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 San Jacinto 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 Point Blank
When does frost risk typically end in Point Blank?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Point Blank typically lands around Feb 10, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Point Blank?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Point Blank typically arrives around Dec 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 23, so the watching starts about Nov 7 — about 300 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Point Blank?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Point Blank sees about 300 frost-free days — roughly Feb 10 through Dec 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 3 to Nov 23, about 265 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Point Blank?
The federal record around Point Blank is a meaningful one — 37 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (22), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Point Blank?
From about Nov 7 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 Dec 7 (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 Dec 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Point Blank's scale — its 9a band and its 300-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Point Blank'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 Point Blank’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Point Blank's own scale — the 1,295 acres it covers and 37 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Point Blank's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 37 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Point Blank, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Point Blank's boundary and the 1,295 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~300-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Point Blank's own centroid, the South Central PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Point Blank has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom San Jacinto County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Point Blank's 1,295 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom San Jacinto County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom San Jacinto 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 San Jacinto County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Point Blank's 1,295 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Point Blank you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,295 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Point Blank-wide figureread your own land →
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