Hurley, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Hurley, 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 Hurley lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hurley — the short answer
Hurley, New Mexico: USDA zone 7b, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 653 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 653 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 7b is Hurley's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hurley's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hurley
Each reading below is measured for Hurley itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHurley runs about 215 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
MeasuredHurley sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Hurley is in
Hurley sits in the Chihuahuan Deserts — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Hurley's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Grant County is mostly Arizona/New Mexico Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Hurley
Every plant below cleared Hurley's own zone 7b and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hurley?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — 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.
Documented around Hurley
Survey cells within 31 miles of Hurley checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 525 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Hurley
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hurley. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CHINO MINES COUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- H AND H LAUNDRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- SNAPPY MART - NO1153Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- HURLEY EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- SANTA RITA LOOKOUTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- HOLGUIN RAULUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- (Facility) Chino Copper SmelterMining · 1900 ft
- Ben Hur MineMining · 1.6 mi
- Mayflower MineMining · 1.7 mi
- GILA MILL WORKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- SANTA RITA MINEBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- Chino ConcentratorMining · 2.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hurley'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 Hurley.
Total Sites
235
within ~10 miles of Hurley
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hurley
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hurley
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hurley, Mining runs higher than the national average — 81 sites within ~10 miles of Hurley. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Hurley
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 Hurley average
Your land is one point inside Hurley
Everything above resolves to Hurley as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 653 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 Hurley Average
Hurley Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Hurley
- ●One soil character for all of Hurley
- ●Frost dates read at Hurley's scale: Apr 8 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hurley's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hurley
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hurley, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hurley averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hurley — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hurley average
How we know this about Hurley
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 Hurley’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 Hurley
When does frost risk typically end in Hurley?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hurley typically lands around Apr 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Hurley?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hurley typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hurley?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hurley sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 26, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hurley?
The federal record around Hurley runs heavier than most — 235 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (88), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Hurley?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hurley's scale — its 7b band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hurley'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 Hurley’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Hurley's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 653 acres it covers and 235 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hurley's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hurley's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Nov 9 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 235 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hurley, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hurley's boundary and the 653 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Hurley sits in the Chihuahuan Deserts — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Hurley 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 Hurley's 653 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Grant County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Grant 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 Grant County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hurley's 653 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hurley you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 653 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 Hurley-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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