Warren City, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Warren City, 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 Warren City lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Warren City — the short answer
Warren City, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 279 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 23
- Gregg County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 29
- Gregg County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~279
- Gregg County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City 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 Gregg County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Warren City's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Warren City's 279-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Warren City
Each reading below is measured for Warren City itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWarren City runs about 279 days between hard freezes (read from Gregg County, the closest normal to Warren City) — 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
MeasuredWarren City 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 Warren City is in
Warren City sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Warren City's own centroid rather than borrowed from Gregg County.
What Grows in Warren City
Every plant below cleared Warren City's own zone 8b and its 279-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Warren City?
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 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 29 — 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 Warren City
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Warren City. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- QUICK FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- AJS FAST STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- ROBERTS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- G E INTERLOGIX INCBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- G E INTERLOGIX INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.8 mi
- PHILLIPS PETROLEUMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- WILLCO 1Underground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- CEFCO 79Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- FAMILY FORDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- 1000 N MAINUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- FAMILY MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- ALLSTATES COATINGS COBrownfields · 2.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Warren City'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 Warren City.
Total Sites
514
within ~10 miles of Warren City
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Warren City
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Warren City
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Warren City, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Warren City — Underground Storage Tanks (398 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (34 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Warren City
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 Warren City
Everything above resolves to Warren City as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Gregg 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 Warren City Average
Warren City Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Warren City
- ●One soil character for all of Warren City
- ●Frost dates read at Warren City's scale: Feb 23 to Nov 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Warren City's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Warren City
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Warren City, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Warren City averages can't show:
We read public map data around Warren City — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Warren City average
How we know this about Warren City
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 Gregg 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 Warren City
When does frost risk typically end in Warren City?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Warren City typically lands around Feb 23, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Warren City?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Warren City typically arrives around Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 15, so the watching starts about Oct 30 — about 279 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Warren City?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Warren City sees about 279 frost-free days — roughly Feb 23 through Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 16 to Nov 15, about 244 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Warren City?
The federal record around Warren City is a meaningful one — 514 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (398), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.5 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Warren City?
From about Oct 30 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Warren City's scale — its 8b band and its 279-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Warren City'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 Warren City’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Warren City's own scale — the 1,119 acres it covers and 514 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Warren City's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 514 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Warren City, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Warren City's boundary and the 1,119 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~279-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Warren City's own centroid, the South Central PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Warren City has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Gregg County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Warren City's 1,119 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gregg County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gregg 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 Gregg County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Warren City's 1,119 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Warren City you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,119 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.5 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 Warren City-wide figureread your own land →
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