McCartys Village, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in McCartys Village, 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 McCartys Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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McCartys Village — the short answer
McCartys Village, New Mexico: USDA zone 6b, about 179 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~179
- 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 6b is McCartys Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against McCartys Village's 179-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in McCartys Village
Each reading below is measured for McCartys Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMcCartys Village runs about 179 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
MeasuredMcCartys Village sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 McCartys Village is in
McCartys Village sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at McCartys Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cibola County.
What Grows in McCartys Village
Every plant below cleared McCartys Village's own zone 6b and its 179-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in McCartys Village?
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 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 21 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
What's on the federal record near McCartys Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of McCartys Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 10N.08W.27.320Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- BLACK MOUND SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- 10N.08W.23.441Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- 10N.08W.28.310Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- 10N.08W.32.312Nitrate · 2.8 mi
- 10N.07W.18.331Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- 10N.07W.29.213 Pueblo Test 4Nitrate · 3.7 mi
- 10N.07W.29.214Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- 10N.07W.20.233Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- OLD TEXACO STATION AND POST OFFICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- WHITING BROTHERS 79Underground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- SKYWAY TRAVEL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from McCartys Village'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 McCartys Village.
Total Sites
71
within ~10 miles of McCartys Village
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 brownfield site
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of McCartys Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of McCartys Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around McCartys Village, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 64 sites within ~10 miles of McCartys Village. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 McCartys Village
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 McCartys Village average
Your land is one point inside McCartys Village
Everything above resolves to McCartys Village 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 McCartys Village Average
McCartys Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across McCartys Village
- ●One soil character for all of McCartys Village
- ●Frost dates read at McCartys Village's scale: Apr 25 to Oct 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not McCartys Village's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in McCartys Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in McCartys Village, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that McCartys Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around McCartys Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the McCartys Village average
How we know this about McCartys Village
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 McCartys Village’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 McCartys Village
When does frost risk typically end in McCartys Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in McCartys Village typically lands around Apr 25, 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 16.
When is the first frost in McCartys Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in McCartys Village typically arrives around Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 7, so the watching starts about Sep 21 — about 179 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in McCartys Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, McCartys Village sees about 179 frost-free days — roughly Apr 25 through Oct 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 16 to Oct 7, about 144 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in McCartys Village?
The federal record around McCartys Village shows 71 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (64), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.6 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in McCartys Village?
From about Sep 21 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at McCartys Village's scale — its 6b band and its 179-day season. Your yard writes its own version of McCartys Village'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 McCartys Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at McCartys Village's own scale — its own ~179-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,052 acres it covers and 71 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- McCartys Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- McCartys Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 25 and Oct 21 and the ~179-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 71 documented contamination sites on the federal record near McCartys Village, the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- McCartys Village's boundary and the 2,052 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~179-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at McCartys Village'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 McCartys Village's 2,052 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cibola County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cibola 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 Cibola County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among McCartys Village's 2,052 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of McCartys Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,052 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 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 McCartys Village-wide figureread your own land →