Roaring Springs, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Roaring Springs, 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 Roaring Springs lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Roaring Springs — the short answer
Roaring Springs, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 241 days between hard freezes, across 680 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~241
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 680 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7b is Roaring Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Roaring Springs's 241-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Roaring Springs
Each reading below is measured for Roaring Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRoaring Springs runs about 241 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredRoaring Springs sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Roaring Springs is in
Roaring Springs sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Roaring Springs's own centroid rather than borrowed from Motley County.
What Grows in Roaring Springs
Every plant below cleared Roaring Springs's own zone 7b and its 241-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Roaring Springs?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 16 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Roaring Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Roaring Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ROARING SPRINGS GASCARD 240300Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- ALLSUPS 242Underground Storage Tanks · 7.9 mi
- JOHNS AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.0 mi
- SUNBELT SAVINGS FSBUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.0 mi
- DONS CONOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.1 mi
Measured from Roaring Springs'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 Roaring Springs.
Total Sites
5
within ~10 miles of Roaring Springs
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
5 underground storage tanks
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Roaring Springs
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Roaring Springs
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 Roaring Springs average
Your land is one point inside Roaring Springs
Everything above resolves to Roaring Springs as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 680 acres. 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 Roaring Springs Average
Roaring Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Roaring Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Roaring Springs
- ●Frost dates read at Roaring Springs's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Roaring Springs's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Roaring Springs
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Three things about your lot that Roaring Springs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Roaring Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Roaring Springs average
How we know this about Roaring Springs
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 Roaring Springs’s own record; 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 Roaring Springs
When does frost risk typically end in Roaring Springs?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Roaring Springs typically lands around Mar 20, 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 Apr 10.
When is the first frost in Roaring Springs?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Roaring Springs typically arrives around Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 2, so the watching starts about Oct 17 — about 241 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Roaring Springs?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Roaring Springs sees about 241 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Nov 2, about 206 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Roaring Springs?
The federal record around Roaring Springs is light — 5 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (5), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Roaring Springs?
From about Oct 17 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Roaring Springs's scale — its 7b band and its 241-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Roaring Springs'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 Roaring Springs’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Roaring Springs's own scale — its own ~241-day season between 28°F freezes, the 680 acres it covers and 5 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Roaring Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Roaring Springs's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 16 and the ~241-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 5 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Roaring Springs, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Roaring Springs's boundary and the 680 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~241-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Roaring Springs's own centroid, the Southwestern TablelandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Roaring Springs's 680 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Motley County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Motley 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 Motley County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Roaring Springs's 680 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Roaring Springs you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 680 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 Roaring Springs-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across TexasRoaring Springs sits outside our named growing regions, so Texas as a whole is its closest context here.