Las Maravillas, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Las Maravillas, 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 Las Maravillas lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Las Maravillas — the short answer
Las Maravillas, New Mexico: USDA zone 7a, about 206 days between hard freezes, across 646 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~206
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 646 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 Las Maravillas's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Las Maravillas's 206-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Las Maravillas
Each reading below is measured for Las Maravillas itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLas Maravillas runs about 206 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
MeasuredLas Maravillas 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 Las Maravillas is in
Las Maravillas sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Las Maravillas's own centroid rather than borrowed from Valencia County.
What Grows in Las Maravillas
Every plant below cleared Las Maravillas's own zone 7a and its 206-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Las Maravillas?
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 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Las Maravillas
Survey cells within 31 miles of Las Maravillas checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 474 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Las Maravillas
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Las Maravillas. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 06N.02E.24.144Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- 06N.02E.03.344Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- LOS LUNAS CHEMICAL CACHESuperfund · 1.8 mi
- J & A QUICKSTOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- MANA MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- 06N.02E.10.341Nitrate · 3.6 mi
- NORTH EL CERRO LOOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- ROBERTS CONOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- CIRCLE K 762Underground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- SOUTHWAY CONSTRUCTION- ORONA PITBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- PAULS PLACEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- J AND J COUNTRY MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Las Maravillas'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 Las Maravillas.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Las Maravillas
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Las Maravillas
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Las Maravillas, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 3 sites within ~10 miles of Las Maravillas. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Las Maravillas
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 Las Maravillas average
Your land is one point inside Las Maravillas
Everything above resolves to Las Maravillas as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 646 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 Las Maravillas Average
Las Maravillas Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Las Maravillas
- ●One soil character for all of Las Maravillas
- ●Frost dates read at Las Maravillas's scale: Apr 7 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Las Maravillas's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Las Maravillas
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Las Maravillas, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Las Maravillas averages can't show:
We read public map data around Las Maravillas — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Las Maravillas average
How we know this about Las Maravillas
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 Las Maravillas’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 Las Maravillas
When does frost risk typically end in Las Maravillas?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Las Maravillas typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Las Maravillas?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Las Maravillas typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 206 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Las Maravillas?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Las Maravillas sees about 206 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 16, about 171 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Las Maravillas?
The federal record around Las Maravillas is a meaningful one — 231 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (103), the nearest Nitrate record about 1.1 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 Las Maravillas?
From about Sep 30 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Las Maravillas's scale — its 7a band and its 206-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Las Maravillas'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 Las Maravillas’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Las Maravillas's own scale — its own ~206-day season between 28°F freezes, the 646 acres it covers and 231 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Las Maravillas's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Las Maravillas's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Oct 30 and the ~206-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 231 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Las Maravillas, the closest Nitrate record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Las Maravillas's boundary and the 646 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~206-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Las Maravillas's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Las Maravillas 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 Las Maravillas's 646 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Valencia County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Valencia 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 Valencia County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Las Maravillas's 646 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Las Maravillas you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 646 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 1.1 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 Las Maravillas-wide figureread your own land →