Woodcreek, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Woodcreek, 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 Woodcreek lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Woodcreek — the short answer
Woodcreek, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 289 days between hard freezes, across 695 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 16
- Hays County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 2
- Hays County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~289
- Hays County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 695 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 Hays County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Woodcreek's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodcreek's 289-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodcreek
Each reading below is measured for Woodcreek itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWoodcreek runs about 289 days between hard freezes (read from Hays County, the closest normal to Woodcreek) — 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
MeasuredWoodcreek sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Woodcreek is in
Woodcreek sits in the Edwards Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Woodcreek's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hays County.
What Grows in Woodcreek
Every plant below cleared Woodcreek's own zone 9a and its 289-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodcreek?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
Documented around Woodcreek
Survey cells within 31 miles of Woodcreek checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 639 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodcreek
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodcreek. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KWIK CHEK 57Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- HEB 708 WIMBERLEYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- WIMBERLEY SHAMROCKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- WIMBERLEY QUICK MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- BROOKSHIRE BROTHERS 67Underground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- WIMBERLEY TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- THE OIL EXCHANGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- LR-68-30-904Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- LR-68-08-1 (G-18)Nitrate · 2.8 mi
- LR-68-08-102Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- WIMBERLEY WSCPFAS · 3.0 mi
- DOI US FISH & WILDLIFE SERVUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodcreek'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 Woodcreek.
Total Sites
85
within ~10 miles of Woodcreek
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
30 nitrate monitoring sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodcreek
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodcreek
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodcreek, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Woodcreek — PFAS (3 sites) and Nitrate (30 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Woodcreek
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 Woodcreek average
Your land is one point inside Woodcreek
Everything above resolves to Woodcreek as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 695 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Hays 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 Woodcreek Average
Woodcreek Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Woodcreek
- ●One soil character for all of Woodcreek
- ●Frost dates read at Woodcreek's scale: Feb 16 to Dec 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodcreek's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodcreek
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodcreek, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodcreek averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodcreek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodcreek average
How we know this about Woodcreek
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 Hays 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 Woodcreek
When does frost risk typically end in Woodcreek?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodcreek 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 Woodcreek?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodcreek 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 Woodcreek?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodcreek 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 Woodcreek?
The federal record around Woodcreek is a meaningful one — 85 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (52), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.6 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 Woodcreek?
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 Woodcreek's scale — its 9a band and its 289-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodcreek'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 Woodcreek’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Woodcreek's own scale — the 695 acres it covers and 85 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodcreek's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 85 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodcreek, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodcreek's boundary and the 695 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~289-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Woodcreek's own centroid, the Edwards PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Woodcreek checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Woodcreek has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Hays County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodcreek's 695 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hays County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hays 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 Hays County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodcreek's 695 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodcreek you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 695 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.6 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 Woodcreek-wide figureread your own land →
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