Rogers, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Well-matched crops include artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Rogers, 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 Rogers lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Rogers — the short answer
Rogers, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 287 days between hard freezes, across 660 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 18
- Bell County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 2
- Bell County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~287
- Bell County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 660 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 Bell County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Rogers's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Rogers's 287-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Rogers
Each reading below is measured for Rogers itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsRogers runs about 287 days between hard freezes (read from Bell County, the closest normal to Rogers) — 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
MeasuredRogers 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 Rogers is in
Rogers sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Rogers's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bell County.
What Grows in Rogers
Every plant below cleared Rogers's own zone 9a and its 287-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Rogers?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Rogers
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Rogers. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ROGERS FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- MATTIES GROC & MKTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- CEFCO 7Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- ROGERS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- RED RANGER GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- BELL 1 SOLAR PROJECTBrownfields · 6.8 mi
- CIRCLE V MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.3 mi
- CEFCO 49Underground Storage Tanks · 7.5 mi
- TOWN & COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.5 mi
- BELL HAI GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.6 mi
- B F & M COOPERATIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.8 mi
Measured from Rogers'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 Rogers.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Rogers
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Rogers
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Rogers
Everything above resolves to Rogers as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 660 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Bell 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 Rogers Average
Rogers Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Rogers
- ●One soil character for all of Rogers
- ●Frost dates read at Rogers's scale: Feb 18 to Dec 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Rogers's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Rogers
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Rogers, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Rogers — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rogers average
How we know this about Rogers
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 Bell 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 Rogers
When does frost risk typically end in Rogers?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Rogers typically lands around Feb 18, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Rogers?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Rogers typically arrives around Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 18, so the watching starts about Nov 2 — about 287 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Rogers?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Rogers sees about 287 frost-free days — roughly Feb 18 through Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 11 to Nov 18, about 252 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Rogers?
The federal record around Rogers is light — 11 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (10), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Rogers?
From about Nov 2 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Rogers's scale — its 9a band and its 287-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Rogers'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 Rogers’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Rogers's own scale — the 660 acres it covers and 11 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Rogers's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 11 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Rogers, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Rogers's boundary and the 660 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~287-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Rogers's own centroid, the Texas Blackland PrairiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Rogers has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Bell County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Rogers's 660 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bell County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bell 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 Bell County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Rogers's 660 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Rogers you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 660 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Rogers-wide figureread your own land →
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