Beclabito, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Beclabito, 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 Beclabito lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Beclabito — the short answer
Beclabito, New Mexico: USDA zone 7a, about 212 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~212
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 7a is Beclabito's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beclabito's 212-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beclabito
Each reading below is measured for Beclabito itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBeclabito runs about 212 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBeclabito sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Beclabito is in
Beclabito sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Beclabito's own centroid rather than borrowed from San Juan County.
What Grows in Beclabito
Every plant below cleared Beclabito's own zone 7a and its 212-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beclabito?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Beclabito
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beclabito. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NR019.0105X1110Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- NR019.0150X1160 12T-599Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- NR019.0080X1265Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- NR018.1070X1260Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- NR018.1040X1280 12P-355Nitrate · 3.6 mi
- NR019.0200X0900Nitrate · 3.7 mi
- TIISNAZBAS COMMUNITY SCHOOLBrownfields · 5.6 mi
- 09 019-03.80X06.60Nitrate · 6.2 mi
- SHIPROCK WATER OPER AND MAINTBrownfields · 6.8 mi
- NR018.0825X1590 12T-148Nitrate · 7.0 mi
- 09 019-05.82X06.78Nitrate · 7.4 mi
- ENOS JOHNSON URANIUM MINE-RED VALLEYSuperfund · 7.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beclabito'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 Beclabito.
Total Sites
35
within ~10 miles of Beclabito
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beclabito
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beclabito, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Beclabito — Superfund (6 sites) and Nitrate (26 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Beclabito
Everything above resolves to Beclabito as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Beclabito Average
Beclabito Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Beclabito
- ●One soil character for all of Beclabito
- ●Frost dates read at Beclabito's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beclabito's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beclabito, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beclabito averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beclabito — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beclabito average
How we know this about Beclabito
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 Beclabito’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 Beclabito
When does frost risk typically end in Beclabito?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beclabito typically lands around Apr 4, 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 Apr 25.
When is the first frost in Beclabito?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beclabito typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 212 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beclabito?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beclabito sees about 212 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 19, about 177 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beclabito?
The federal record around Beclabito is a meaningful one — 35 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (26), the nearest Nitrate 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 Beclabito?
From about Oct 3 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 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 Nov 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beclabito's scale — its 7a band and its 212-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beclabito'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 Beclabito’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Beclabito's own scale — its own ~212-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,818 acres it covers and 35 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beclabito's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Beclabito's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 2 and the ~212-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 35 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beclabito, the closest Nitrate record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beclabito's boundary and the 4,818 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~212-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Beclabito's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beclabito's 4,818 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom San Juan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom San Juan County
- The growing challenges every New Mexico grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New Mexico
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom San Juan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beclabito's 4,818 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beclabito you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,818 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Beclabito-wide figureread your own land →