Strawn, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Strawn, 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 Strawn lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Strawn — the short answer
Strawn, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 265 days between hard freezes, across 499 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~265
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 499 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 Strawn's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Strawn's 265-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Strawn
Each reading below is measured for Strawn itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredStrawn runs about 265 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredStrawn 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 Strawn is in
Strawn sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Strawn's own centroid rather than borrowed from Palo Pinto County.
What Grows in Strawn
Every plant below cleared Strawn's own zone 8a and its 265-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Strawn?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 24 — 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 Strawn
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Strawn. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GREYHOUND PAC A SACUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- GREYHOUND PAC A SACBrownfields · 200 ft
- 200 GRANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- CITY OF STRAWN CITY BARNUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- MINGUS QUICK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- GORDON EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- GORDON ISDUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.5 mi
- GORDON SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.5 mi
- SO-LO SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.5 mi
- MAINTENANCE SECTION 06Brownfields · 7.5 mi
- E-Z SERVE 100615Underground Storage Tanks · 7.6 mi
- BOBS K&M SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.8 mi
Measured from Strawn'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 Strawn.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Strawn
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 Strawn
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 Strawn
Everything above resolves to Strawn as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 499 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 Strawn Average
Strawn Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Strawn
- ●One soil character for all of Strawn
- ●Frost dates read at Strawn's scale: Mar 4 to Nov 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Strawn's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Strawn
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Strawn, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Strawn averages can't show:
We read public map data around Strawn — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Strawn average
How we know this about Strawn
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 Strawn’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 Strawn
When does frost risk typically end in Strawn?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Strawn typically lands around Mar 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Strawn?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Strawn typically arrives around Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 10, so the watching starts about Oct 25 — about 265 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Strawn?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Strawn sees about 265 frost-free days — roughly Mar 4 through Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 25 to Nov 10, about 230 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Strawn?
The federal record around Strawn is light — 12 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (10), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Strawn?
From about Oct 25 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Strawn's scale — its 8a band and its 265-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Strawn'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 Strawn’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Strawn's own scale — its own ~265-day season between 28°F freezes, the 499 acres it covers and 12 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Strawn's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Strawn's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 4 and Nov 24 and the ~265-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 12 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Strawn, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Strawn's boundary and the 499 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~265-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Strawn's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Strawn's 499 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Palo Pinto County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Palo Pinto 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 Palo Pinto County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Strawn's 499 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Strawn you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 499 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 Strawn-wide figureread your own land →
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