Rosebud, 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.
Expect artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Rosebud, 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 Rosebud lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Rosebud — the short answer
Rosebud, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 294 days between hard freezes, across 515 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 12
- Falls County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 3
- Falls County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~294
- Falls County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 515 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 Falls County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Rosebud's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Rosebud's 294-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Rosebud
Each reading below is measured for Rosebud itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsRosebud runs about 294 days between hard freezes (read from Falls County, the closest normal to Rosebud) — 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
MeasuredRosebud 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 Rosebud is in
Rosebud sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Rosebud's own centroid rather than borrowed from Falls County.
What Grows in Rosebud
Every plant below cleared Rosebud's own zone 9a and its 294-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Rosebud?
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 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 12 (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. 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 Rosebud
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Rosebud. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CONTEL OF TEXASUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- BELFALLS ELECTRIC COOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- CITY OF ROSEBUDUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- MAREKS TIREUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- BERNSEN FARM EQUIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- TRUBEES AUTO SERVICEBrownfields · 1400 ft
- CEFCO 2Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- M & M FUEL PLUSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- ROSEBUD GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- LEONS SELF SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- ROSEBUD LOTT ISDUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- B F & M COOPERATIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Rosebud'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 Rosebud.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Rosebud
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •PFAS do not break down in groundwater. Irrigate from a tested source.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Rosebud
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 Rosebud average
Your land is one point inside Rosebud
Everything above resolves to Rosebud as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 515 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Falls 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 Rosebud Average
Rosebud Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Rosebud
- ●One soil character for all of Rosebud
- ●Frost dates read at Rosebud's scale: Feb 12 to Dec 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Rosebud's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Rosebud
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Rosebud, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Rosebud averages can't show:
We read public map data around Rosebud — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rosebud average
How we know this about Rosebud
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 Falls 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 Rosebud
When does frost risk typically end in Rosebud?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Rosebud typically lands around Feb 12, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Rosebud?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Rosebud 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 294 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Rosebud?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Rosebud sees about 294 frost-free days — roughly Feb 12 through Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 5 to Nov 19, about 259 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Rosebud?
The federal record around Rosebud shows 18 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (15), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Rosebud?
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 Rosebud's scale — its 9a band and its 294-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Rosebud'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 Rosebud’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Rosebud's own scale — the 515 acres it covers and 18 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Rosebud's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 18 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Rosebud, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Rosebud's boundary and the 515 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~294-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Rosebud's own centroid, the Texas Blackland PrairiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Rosebud has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Falls County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Rosebud's 515 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Falls County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Falls 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 Falls County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Rosebud's 515 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Rosebud you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 515 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Rosebud-wide figureread your own land →
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