Cuyamungue Grant, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Cuyamungue Grant, 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 Cuyamungue Grant lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Cuyamungue Grant — the short answer
Cuyamungue Grant, New Mexico: USDA zone 7a, about 197 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~197
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Cuyamungue Grant's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cuyamungue Grant's 197-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cuyamungue Grant
Each reading below is measured for Cuyamungue Grant itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCuyamungue Grant runs about 197 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCuyamungue Grant 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 Cuyamungue Grant is in
Cuyamungue Grant sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Cuyamungue Grant's own centroid rather than borrowed from Santa Fe County.
What Grows in Cuyamungue Grant
Every plant below cleared Cuyamungue Grant's own zone 7a and its 197-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cuyamungue Grant?
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 Mar 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Cuyamungue Grant
Survey cells within 31 miles of Cuyamungue Grant checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 433 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Cuyamungue Grant
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cuyamungue Grant. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HIGH MESA ENVIRONMENTAL, LLCBrownfields · 1400 ft
- SPIRITUS TECHNOLOGIESBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- POJOAQUE SOUTHPFAS · 2.7 mi
- 19N.09E.14.3Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- 19N.8E.24 BH-4Nitrate · 2.9 mi
- 19N.8E.24 MW-4Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- 19N.8E.24 BH-3Nitrate · 3.1 mi
- 18N.09E.10.320Nitrate · 3.1 mi
- 19N.8E.24 MW-3Nitrate · 3.2 mi
- 19N.09E.10.4Nitrate · 3.3 mi
- 19N.09E.11.33Nitrate · 3.3 mi
- 19N.8E.13 Windmill WellNitrate · 3.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cuyamungue Grant'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 Cuyamungue Grant.
Total Sites
107
within ~10 miles of Cuyamungue Grant
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cuyamungue Grant
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cuyamungue Grant
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cuyamungue Grant, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 92 sites within ~10 miles of Cuyamungue Grant. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Cuyamungue Grant
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 Cuyamungue Grant average
Your land is one point inside Cuyamungue Grant
Everything above resolves to Cuyamungue Grant as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Cuyamungue Grant Average
Cuyamungue Grant Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Cuyamungue Grant
- ●One soil character for all of Cuyamungue Grant
- ●Frost dates read at Cuyamungue Grant's scale: Apr 13 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cuyamungue Grant's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cuyamungue Grant
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cuyamungue Grant, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Cuyamungue Grant averages can't show:
We read public map data around Cuyamungue Grant — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cuyamungue Grant average
How we know this about Cuyamungue Grant
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 Cuyamungue Grant’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 Cuyamungue Grant
When does frost risk typically end in Cuyamungue Grant?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cuyamungue Grant typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Cuyamungue Grant?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cuyamungue Grant typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 197 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cuyamungue Grant?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cuyamungue Grant sees about 197 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 13, about 162 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cuyamungue Grant?
The federal record around Cuyamungue Grant is a meaningful one — 107 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (92), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Cuyamungue Grant?
From about Sep 27 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 Oct 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 Oct 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Cuyamungue Grant's scale — its 7a band and its 197-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cuyamungue Grant'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 Cuyamungue Grant’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Cuyamungue Grant's own scale — its own ~197-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,632 acres it covers and 107 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cuyamungue Grant's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Cuyamungue Grant's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Oct 27 and the ~197-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 107 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cuyamungue Grant, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cuyamungue Grant's boundary and the 1,632 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~197-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Cuyamungue Grant's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Cuyamungue Grant checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cuyamungue Grant's 1,632 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Santa Fe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cuyamungue Grant's 1,632 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cuyamungue Grant you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,632 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Cuyamungue Grant-wide figureread your own land →