Pleasanton, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Pleasanton, 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 Pleasanton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pleasanton — the short answer
Pleasanton, New Mexico: USDA zone 7b, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 975 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 975 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 Pleasanton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pleasanton's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pleasanton
Each reading below is measured for Pleasanton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPleasanton runs about 213 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
MeasuredPleasanton 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 Pleasanton is in
Pleasanton sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Temperate Sierras. That is read at Pleasanton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Catron County.
What Grows in Pleasanton
Every plant below cleared Pleasanton's own zone 7b and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pleasanton?
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 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Pleasanton
Survey cells within 31 miles of Pleasanton checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 479 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pleasanton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pleasanton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- OLD KELLY STORE OLD GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- OLD PHILLIPS 66Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- HOLLIMON VERNONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- WHITEWATER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- ELLIES COUNTRY KITCHENUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- True Blue PropertyMining · 6.0 mi
- ALMA STORE AND GRILL LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.0 mi
- Independence MineMining · 7.1 mi
- Uncle John ProspectMining · 7.6 mi
- Old Uncle John MineMining · 7.8 mi
- GILA NATIONAL FOREST: MINERAL CREEK TAILINGSuperfund · 8.5 mi
- Deer Trail TunnelMining · 8.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pleasanton'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 Pleasanton.
Total Sites
32
within ~10 miles of Pleasanton
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pleasanton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pleasanton, Mining runs higher than the national average — 25 sites within ~10 miles of Pleasanton. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Pleasanton
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Pleasanton
Everything above resolves to Pleasanton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 975 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 Pleasanton Average
Pleasanton Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Pleasanton
- ●One soil character for all of Pleasanton
- ●Frost dates read at Pleasanton's scale: Apr 9 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pleasanton's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pleasanton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pleasanton, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pleasanton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pleasanton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pleasanton average
How we know this about Pleasanton
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 Pleasanton’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 Pleasanton
When does frost risk typically end in Pleasanton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pleasanton typically lands around Apr 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Pleasanton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pleasanton typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pleasanton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pleasanton sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 9 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 30 to Oct 25, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pleasanton?
The federal record around Pleasanton is a meaningful one — 32 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (25), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Pleasanton?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pleasanton's scale — its 7b band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pleasanton'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 Pleasanton’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pleasanton's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 975 acres it covers and 32 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pleasanton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pleasanton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 9 and Nov 8 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 32 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pleasanton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pleasanton's boundary and the 975 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pleasanton's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Pleasanton 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 Pleasanton's 975 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Catron County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Catron 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 Catron County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pleasanton's 975 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pleasanton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 975 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Pleasanton-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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