Rendon, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Rendon, 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 Rendon lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Rendon — the short answer
Rendon, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 292 days between hard freezes, across 16K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 14
- Tarrant County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 3
- Tarrant County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~292
- Tarrant County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 16K 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 Tarrant County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Rendon's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Rendon's 292-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Rendon
Each reading below is measured for Rendon itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsRendon runs about 292 days between hard freezes (read from Tarrant County, the closest normal to Rendon) — 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
MeasuredRendon 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 Rendon is in
Rendon sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Rendon's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tarrant County.
What Grows in Rendon
Every plant below cleared Rendon's own zone 8b and its 292-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Rendon?
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 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 3 — 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 Rendon
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Rendon. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RENDON VALEROUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- RENDON FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- DEWEYS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- MACS GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- ASA FOOD STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PENNYS ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- QUICK TRACK 16Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- TERRY MCCOYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- SUNNY MART 4Underground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- ENVIROSERVE LOGISTICSBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- ED FRIEZEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- RETTA GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Rendon'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 Rendon.
Total Sites
996
within ~10 miles of Rendon
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
7 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Rendon
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Rendon
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Rendon, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Rendon — Toxics Release Inventory (101 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (683 sites). 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.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Rendon
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 Rendon average
Your land is one point inside Rendon
Everything above resolves to Rendon as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 16K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Tarrant 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 Rendon Average
Rendon Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Rendon
- ●One soil character for all of Rendon
- ●Frost dates read at Rendon's scale: Feb 14 to Dec 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Rendon's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Rendon
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Rendon, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Rendon averages can't show:
We read public map data around Rendon — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rendon average
How we know this about Rendon
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 Tarrant 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 Rendon
When does frost risk typically end in Rendon?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Rendon typically lands around Feb 14, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Rendon?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Rendon typically arrives around Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 19, so the watching starts about Nov 3 — about 292 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Rendon?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Rendon sees about 292 frost-free days — roughly Feb 14 through Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 7 to Nov 19, about 257 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Rendon?
The federal record around Rendon is a meaningful one — 996 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (683), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Rendon?
From about Nov 3 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Rendon's scale — its 8b band and its 292-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Rendon'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 Rendon’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Rendon's own scale — the 15,744 acres it covers and 996 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Rendon's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 996 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Rendon, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Rendon's boundary and the 15,744 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~292-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Rendon's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Rendon has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Tarrant County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Rendon's 15,744 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tarrant County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tarrant 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 Tarrant County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Rendon's 15,744 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Rendon you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 15,744 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Rendon-wide figureread your own land →
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