Woodmoor, Colorado, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Woodmoor, 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 Woodmoor lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Woodmoor — the short answer
Woodmoor, Colorado: USDA zone 5b, about 149 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~149
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 5b is Woodmoor's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodmoor's 149-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodmoor
Each reading below is measured for Woodmoor itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodmoor runs about 149 days between hard freezes — a short growing season.
Long-maturing crops like melons, sweet potatoes, and winter squash can run out of runway before the first hard freeze, ripening late or not at all.
Lead with fast-maturing varieties, and stretch the season on both ends with cold frames, low tunnels, or a greenhouse.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredWoodmoor sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Woodmoor is in
Woodmoor sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Woodmoor's own centroid rather than borrowed from El Paso County.
What Grows in Woodmoor
Every plant below cleared Woodmoor's own zone 5b and its 149-day season. Each card opens that plant's Colorado profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodmoor?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a season this compact, fast finishers and cold-hardy greens do the late work, and garlic tucked in before the freeze repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Woodmoor
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodmoor. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Woodmoor Country ClubUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Kum & Go #650Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Woodmoor Monument Fire DistUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Monument Central OfficeUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Twin Star Energy #541Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Safeway Fuel Center #1440Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- My Goods Market #6507Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- TRI-LAKES COLLISIONBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- 7-Eleven #20308Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Price Truck SalesUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- SAFEWAY STORE #1440Brownfields · 1.3 mi
- Phillips 66 SSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodmoor'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 Woodmoor.
Total Sites
136
within ~10 miles of Woodmoor
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodmoor
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodmoor
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodmoor, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 6 sites within ~10 miles of Woodmoor. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Woodmoor
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 Woodmoor average
Your land is one point inside Woodmoor
Everything above resolves to Woodmoor as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Woodmoor Average
Woodmoor Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Woodmoor
- ●One soil character for all of Woodmoor
- ●Frost dates read at Woodmoor's scale: May 9 to Oct 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodmoor's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodmoor
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodmoor, Colorado — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodmoor averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodmoor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodmoor average
How we know this about Woodmoor
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 Woodmoor’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 Woodmoor
When does frost risk typically end in Woodmoor?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodmoor typically lands around May 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 May 30.
When is the first frost in Woodmoor?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodmoor typically arrives around Oct 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 21, so the watching starts about Sep 5 — about 149 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodmoor?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodmoor sees about 149 frost-free days — roughly May 9 through Oct 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 30 to Sep 21, about 114 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodmoor?
The federal record around Woodmoor is a meaningful one — 136 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (56), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 gardeners stretch the season in Woodmoor?
With about 149 frost-free days between hard freezes, Woodmoor rewards the classic extension moves: floating row cover buys roughly two to four extra weeks at each shoulder — on this season that is a working window nearer 177 to 205 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 9 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Woodmoor's scale — its 5b band and its 149-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodmoor'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 Woodmoor’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Woodmoor's own scale — its own ~149-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,896 acres it covers and 136 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodmoor's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodmoor's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 9 and Oct 5 and the ~149-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 136 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodmoor, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodmoor's boundary and the 3,896 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~149-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Woodmoor's own centroid, the Southwestern TablelandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodmoor's 3,896 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom El Paso County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom El Paso County
- The growing challenges every Colorado grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Colorado
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom El Paso County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodmoor's 3,896 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodmoor you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,896 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Woodmoor-wide figureread your own land →
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