Snyder, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Snyder, 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 Snyder lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Snyder — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Snyder — the short answer
Snyder, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 257 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~257
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 6K 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 8a is Snyder's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Snyder's 257-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Snyder
Each reading below is measured for Snyder itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSnyder runs about 257 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
MeasuredSnyder sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Snyder is in
Snyder sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Snyder's own centroid rather than borrowed from Scurry County.
What Grows in Snyder
Every plant below cleared Snyder's own zone 8a and its 257-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Snyder?
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 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Snyder
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Snyder. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SNYDER ISDUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- SCURRY COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- BUNCH OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- SNYDER SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- CAR CAREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- CHAPMANS CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- MAYRAS BURRITOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- DOWNTOWN 66Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #4559Brownfields · 1900 ft
- SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- SNYDER STATIONBrownfields · 2000 ft
- QUICK AUTO SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Snyder'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 Snyder.
Total Sites
135
within ~10 miles of Snyder
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
11 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Snyder
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Snyder
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Snyder, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Snyder — Toxics Release Inventory (11 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (109 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 Snyder
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 Snyder average
Your land is one point inside Snyder
Everything above resolves to Snyder as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 6K 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 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 Snyder Average
Snyder Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Snyder
- ●One soil character for all of Snyder
- ●Frost dates read at Snyder's scale: Mar 8 to Nov 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Snyder's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Snyder
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Snyder, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Snyder averages can't show:
We read public map data around Snyder — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Snyder average
How we know this about Snyder
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 Snyder’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 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 Snyder
When does frost risk typically end in Snyder?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Snyder typically lands around Mar 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Snyder?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Snyder typically arrives around Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 6, so the watching starts about Oct 21 — about 257 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Snyder?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Snyder sees about 257 frost-free days — roughly Mar 8 through Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 29 to Nov 6, about 222 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Snyder?
The federal record around Snyder shows 135 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (109), 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 Snyder?
From about Oct 21 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Snyder's scale — its 8a band and its 257-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Snyder'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 Snyder’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Snyder's own scale — its own ~257-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,718 acres it covers and 135 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Snyder's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Snyder's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 8 and Nov 20 and the ~257-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 135 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Snyder, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Snyder's boundary and the 5,718 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~257-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Snyder's own centroid, the Southwestern TablelandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Snyder's 5,718 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Scurry County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Scurry 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 Scurry County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Snyder's 5,718 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Snyder you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,718 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 Snyder-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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