Webberville, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor okra, black-eyed pea, tomato, and jalapeno, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Webberville, 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 Webberville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Webberville — the short answer
Webberville, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 299 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 9
- Travis County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 5
- Travis County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~299
- Travis 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 Travis County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Webberville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Webberville's 299-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Webberville
Each reading below is measured for Webberville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWebberville runs about 299 days between hard freezes (read from Travis County, the closest normal to Webberville) — 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
MeasuredWebberville 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 Webberville is in
Webberville sits in the East Central Texas Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Webberville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Travis County is mostly Edwards Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Webberville
Plants matched to Webberville's USDA zones 8b, ordered by how much hardiness margin each has here — the ones with room to spare at both ends of this town's band lead. Each links to its full growing profile.
Is it too late to plant in Webberville?
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 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 5 — 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.
Documented around Webberville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Webberville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 602 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Webberville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Webberville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WEBBERVILLE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- RIVER BOTTOMS RANCHBrownfields · 2.6 mi
- OLDCASTLE LAWN & GARDENToxics Release Inventory · 2.8 mi
- W L GORE & ASSOCIATES INCToxics Release Inventory · 3.1 mi
- W L GORE & ASSOCIATESUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- AT-58-52-605Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- CIRCLE K STORE 2704691Underground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- FAST BREAK 2Underground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- CLARENCE VINKLAREKUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- TWIN CREEK GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- FORADORYS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- BASTROP ENERGY CENTERBrownfields · 4.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Webberville'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 Webberville.
Total Sites
167
within ~10 miles of Webberville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Webberville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Webberville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Webberville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 21 sites within ~10 miles of Webberville. 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 Webberville
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 Webberville average
Your land is one point inside Webberville
Everything above resolves to Webberville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Travis 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 Webberville Average
Webberville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Webberville
- ●One soil character for all of Webberville
- ●Frost dates read at Webberville's scale: Feb 9 to Dec 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Webberville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Webberville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Webberville, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Webberville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Webberville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Webberville average
How we know this about Webberville
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 Travis 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 Webberville
When does frost risk typically end in Webberville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Webberville typically lands around Feb 9, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Webberville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Webberville typically arrives around Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 21, so the watching starts about Nov 5 — about 299 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Webberville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Webberville sees about 299 frost-free days — roughly Feb 9 through Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 2 to Nov 21, about 264 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Webberville?
The federal record around Webberville is a meaningful one — 167 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (81), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Webberville?
From about Nov 5 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Webberville's scale — its 8b band and its 299-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Webberville'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 Webberville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Webberville's own scale — the 1,339 acres it covers and 167 documented sites around it; 6 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Webberville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 167 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Webberville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Webberville's boundary and the 1,339 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Webberville sits in the East Central Texas Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Webberville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Webberville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Travis County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Webberville's 1,339 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Travis County
- The candidate plant list — Texas's curated set, filtered to this zone band and re-ordered by how much margin each has herefrom Texas
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Travis 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 Travis County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Webberville's 1,339 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Webberville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,339 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Webberville-wide figureread your own land →
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