Trent, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Trent, 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 Trent 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 Trent — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Trent — the short answer
Trent, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 256 days between hard freezes, across 259 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~256
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 259 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 Trent's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Trent's 256-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Trent
Each reading below is measured for Trent itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTrent runs about 256 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
MeasuredTrent 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 Trent is in
Trent sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Trent's own centroid rather than borrowed from Taylor County.
What Grows in Trent
Every plant below cleared Trent's own zone 8a and its 256-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Trent?
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 Feb 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 22 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Trent
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Trent. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 7-ELEVEN 53Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- RENTECH BOILERS SYSTEMS INCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- CAL-TEX FEED YARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- UnknownMining · 2.8 mi
- CAL TEX FEED YARDCAFO · 2.8 mi
- TAYLOR ELECTRICUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- DUBOSE TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
- FINA 1730Underground Storage Tanks · 6.4 mi
- FORMER FAS-GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.4 mi
- PALMER MOTORUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.4 mi
- 7 ELEVEN 27Underground Storage Tanks · 6.5 mi
- SPRING MARKET 725Underground Storage Tanks · 6.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Trent'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 Trent.
Total Sites
23
within ~10 miles of Trent
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 mining site (prospects, none worked)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Trent
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Trent
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.
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
Check your specific parcel in Trent
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 Trent
Everything above resolves to Trent as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 259 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 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 Trent Average
Trent Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Trent
- ●One soil character for all of Trent
- ●Frost dates read at Trent's scale: Mar 11 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Trent's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Trent
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Trent, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Trent — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Trent average
How we know this about Trent
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 Trent’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 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 Trent
When does frost risk typically end in Trent?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Trent typically lands around Mar 11, 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 Apr 1.
When is the first frost in Trent?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Trent typically arrives around Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 8, so the watching starts about Oct 23 — about 256 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Trent?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Trent sees about 256 frost-free days — roughly Mar 11 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 1 to Nov 8, about 221 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Trent?
The federal record around Trent is light — 23 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (17), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles 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 Trent?
From about Oct 23 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Trent's scale — its 8a band and its 256-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Trent'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 Trent’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Trent's own scale — its own ~256-day season between 28°F freezes, the 259 acres it covers and 23 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Trent's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Trent's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 11 and Nov 22 and the ~256-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 23 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Trent, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Trent's boundary and the 259 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~256-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Trent's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Trent's 259 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Taylor County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Taylor 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 Taylor County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Trent's 259 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Trent you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 259 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Trent-wide figureread your own land →
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