Sansom Park, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
The conditions favor cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Sansom Park, 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 Sansom Park lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Sansom Park — the short answer
Sansom Park, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 292 days between hard freezes, across 794 acres of city.
- 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
- City area
- 794 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 Sansom Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sansom Park's 292-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sansom Park
Each reading below is measured for Sansom Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsSansom Park runs about 292 days between hard freezes (read from Tarrant County, the closest normal to Sansom Park) — 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
MeasuredSansom Park 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 Sansom Park is in
Sansom Park sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Sansom Park's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tarrant County.
What Grows in Sansom Park
Every plant below cleared Sansom Park'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 Sansom Park?
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 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. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Sansom Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sansom Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CITY OF SANSON PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- DICKIE CARR PAVINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- 7 ELEVEN 19580Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- LONGHORN MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- MELODY MUSIC MCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- CIRCLE Q 2Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #1816Brownfields · 2300 ft
- STOP N SAVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- BUDS QUICK CHEK 2Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- RACETRAC 388Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- KMART 4402Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- M & M AIR CONDITIONINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sansom Park'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 Sansom Park.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sansom Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sansom Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sansom Park, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Sansom Park — Toxics Release Inventory (183 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (1,685 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Sansom Park
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 Sansom Park average
Your land is one point inside Sansom Park
Everything above resolves to Sansom Park as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 794 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Tarrant 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 Sansom Park Average
Sansom Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Sansom Park
- ●One soil character for all of Sansom Park
- ●Frost dates read at Sansom Park's scale: Feb 14 to Dec 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sansom Park's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sansom Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sansom Park, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sansom Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sansom Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sansom Park average
How we know this about Sansom Park
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 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 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 Sansom Park
When does frost risk typically end in Sansom Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sansom Park 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 Sansom Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sansom Park 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 Sansom Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sansom Park 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 Sansom Park?
The federal record around Sansom Park runs heavier than most — 2,301 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,685), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Sansom Park?
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 Sansom Park's scale — its 8b band and its 292-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sansom Park'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 Sansom Park’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Sansom Park's own scale — the 794 acres it covers and 2,301 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sansom Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 2,301 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sansom Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sansom Park's boundary and the 794 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 Sansom Park's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Sansom Park 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 Sansom Park's 794 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 Sansom Park's 794 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sansom Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 794 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 Sansom Park-wide figureread your own land →
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