Wolfe City, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Wolfe 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 Wolfe 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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Wolfe City — the short answer
Wolfe City, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 277 days between hard freezes, across 719 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 23
- Hunt County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 27
- Hunt County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~277
- Hunt County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 719 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 Hunt County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Wolfe City's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wolfe City's 277-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wolfe City
Each reading below is measured for Wolfe City itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWolfe City runs about 277 days between hard freezes (read from Hunt County, the closest normal to Wolfe 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
MeasuredWolfe City 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 Wolfe City is in
Wolfe City sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Wolfe City's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hunt County.
What Grows in Wolfe City
Every plant below cleared Wolfe City's own zone 8a and its 277-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wolfe City?
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 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 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Wolfe City
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wolfe City. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WOLFE CITY SOUTHUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- WOLFE CITY ISDUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- KWIK CHEK 37Underground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- HILLS TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- 496 CENTRAL OFFICE GYPSY BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- NE TEX COOPERATIVE OIL MILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- AJ GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- NORTH HUNT SUDPFAS · 0.5 mi
- HICKORY CREEK SUDPFAS · 0.5 mi
- GEORGE CATTLE & FEEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- TEXS T ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- CATHYS CORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wolfe 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 Wolfe City.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wolfe City
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wolfe City
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wolfe City, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 21 sites within ~10 miles of Wolfe City. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Wolfe City
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 Wolfe City average
Your land is one point inside Wolfe City
Everything above resolves to Wolfe City as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 719 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Hunt 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 Wolfe City Average
Wolfe City Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Wolfe City
- ●One soil character for all of Wolfe City
- ●Frost dates read at Wolfe City's scale: Feb 23 to Nov 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wolfe City's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wolfe City
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wolfe City, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wolfe City averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wolfe City — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wolfe City average
How we know this about Wolfe 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 Hunt 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 Wolfe City
When does frost risk typically end in Wolfe City?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wolfe 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 Wolfe City?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wolfe City typically arrives around Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 13, so the watching starts about Oct 28 — about 277 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wolfe City?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wolfe City sees about 277 frost-free days — roughly Feb 23 through Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 16 to Nov 13, about 242 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wolfe City?
The federal record around Wolfe City shows 27 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (21), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Wolfe City?
From about Oct 28 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wolfe City's scale — its 8a band and its 277-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wolfe 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 Wolfe City’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Wolfe City's own scale — the 719 acres it covers and 27 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wolfe City's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 27 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wolfe City, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wolfe City's boundary and the 719 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~277-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Wolfe City's own centroid, the Texas Blackland PrairiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Wolfe City has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Hunt County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wolfe City's 719 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hunt County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hunt 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 Hunt County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wolfe City's 719 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wolfe 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 719 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Wolfe City-wide figureread your own land →
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