Point Venture, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
The conditions favor artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Point Venture, 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 Venture 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 Point Venture — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Point Venture — the short answer
Point Venture, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 299 days between hard freezes, across 548 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 9
- Travis County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 5
- Travis County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~299
- Travis County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 548 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 Travis County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Point Venture's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Point Venture's 299-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Point Venture
Each reading below is measured for Point Venture itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsPoint Venture runs about 299 days between hard freezes (read from Travis County, the closest normal to Point Venture) — 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 Venture 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 Venture is in
Point Venture sits in the Edwards Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Point Venture's own centroid rather than borrowed from Travis County.
What Grows in Point Venture
Every plant below cleared Point Venture's own zone 9a and its 299-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Point Venture?
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 Jan 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 5 — 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.
Documented around Point Venture
Survey cells within 31 miles of Point Venture checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 631 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Point Venture
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Point Venture. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- POINT VENTURE PROPERTY OWNERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- LIVE OAK MAINTENANCE FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- ROUGH HOLLOW YACHT CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- LIVE OAK GOLF COURSE MAINTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- LAKEWAY 261 C OUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- LAKEWAY AIRPARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- YAUPON MAINTENANCE FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- LAKEWAY TEXACO STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- LAGO VISTA MARINA RESORT INNUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- HIGHLAND LAKES COUNTRY CLUBUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- 7-ELEVEN 36651Underground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- LAKEWAY MUDPFAS · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Point Venture'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 Venture.
Total Sites
99
within ~10 miles of Point Venture
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Point Venture
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Point Venture
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Point Venture, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Point Venture — PFAS (4 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (78 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Point Venture
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 Venture average
Your land is one point inside Point Venture
Everything above resolves to Point Venture as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 548 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Travis 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 Point Venture Average
Point Venture Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Point Venture
- ●One soil character for all of Point Venture
- ●Frost dates read at Point Venture's scale: Feb 9 to Dec 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Point Venture's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Point Venture
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Point Venture, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Point Venture averages can't show:
We read public map data around Point Venture — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Point Venture average
How we know this about Point Venture
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 Travis 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 Point Venture
When does frost risk typically end in Point Venture?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Point Venture typically lands around Feb 9, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Point Venture?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Point Venture typically arrives around Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 21, so the watching starts about Nov 5 — about 299 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Point Venture?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Point Venture sees about 299 frost-free days — roughly Feb 9 through Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 2 to Nov 21, about 264 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Point Venture?
The federal record around Point Venture is a meaningful one — 99 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (78), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Venture?
From about Nov 5 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Point Venture's scale — its 9a band and its 299-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Point Venture'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 Venture’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Point Venture's own scale — the 548 acres it covers and 99 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Point Venture's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 99 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Point Venture, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Point Venture's boundary and the 548 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~299-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Point Venture's own centroid, the Edwards PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Point Venture checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Point Venture has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Travis County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Point Venture's 548 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Travis County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Travis 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 Travis County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Point Venture's 548 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Point Venture you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 548 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Venture-wide figureread your own land →
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