Tehuacana, 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.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Tehuacana, 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 Tehuacana lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Tehuacana — the short answer
Tehuacana, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 289 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 16
- Limestone County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 2
- Limestone County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~289
- Limestone County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Limestone County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Tehuacana's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tehuacana's 289-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tehuacana
Each reading below is measured for Tehuacana itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsTehuacana runs about 289 days between hard freezes (read from Limestone County, the closest normal to Tehuacana) — 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
MeasuredTehuacana 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 Tehuacana is in
Tehuacana sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Tehuacana's own centroid rather than borrowed from Limestone County.
What Grows in Tehuacana
Every plant below cleared Tehuacana's own zone 8b and its 289-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tehuacana?
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 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 16 (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 Tehuacana
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tehuacana. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SD-39-20-301Nitrate · 2200 ft
- TEHUACANA GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- SD-39-12-902Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- SD-39-20-603Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- SD-39-20-609Nitrate · 4.1 mi
- LIDE TANK CO INCToxics Release Inventory · 4.1 mi
- MEXIA TIRE SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- CORNERSTONE C & MUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- CARRY-ON TRAILER CORPBrownfields · 4.5 mi
- CARRY-ON TRAILER CORPToxics Release Inventory · 4.5 mi
- MEXIA READY MIXToxics Release Inventory · 4.5 mi
- TY-39-12-602Nitrate · 4.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tehuacana'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 Tehuacana.
Total Sites
72
within ~10 miles of Tehuacana
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tehuacana
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tehuacana
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tehuacana, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 5 sites within ~10 miles of Tehuacana. 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.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Tehuacana
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 Tehuacana average
Your land is one point inside Tehuacana
Everything above resolves to Tehuacana as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Limestone 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 Tehuacana Average
Tehuacana Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Tehuacana
- ●One soil character for all of Tehuacana
- ●Frost dates read at Tehuacana's scale: Feb 16 to Dec 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tehuacana's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tehuacana
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tehuacana, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tehuacana averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tehuacana — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tehuacana average
How we know this about Tehuacana
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 Limestone 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 Tehuacana
When does frost risk typically end in Tehuacana?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tehuacana typically lands around Feb 16, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Tehuacana?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tehuacana 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 289 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tehuacana?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tehuacana sees about 289 frost-free days — roughly Feb 16 through Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 9 to Nov 18, about 254 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tehuacana?
The federal record around Tehuacana shows 72 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (44), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles 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 Tehuacana?
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 Tehuacana's scale — its 8b band and its 289-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tehuacana'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 Tehuacana’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Tehuacana's own scale — the 1,011 acres it covers and 72 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tehuacana's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 72 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tehuacana, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tehuacana's boundary and the 1,011 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~289-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tehuacana's own centroid, the Texas Blackland PrairiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Tehuacana has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Limestone County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tehuacana's 1,011 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Limestone County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Limestone 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 Limestone County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tehuacana's 1,011 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tehuacana you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,011 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Tehuacana-wide figureread your own land →
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