Texico, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Texico, 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 Texico lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Texico — the short answer
Texico, New Mexico: USDA zone 7a, about 210 days between hard freezes, across 529 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~210
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 529 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 Texico's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Texico's 210-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Texico
Each reading below is measured for Texico itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTexico runs about 210 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
MeasuredTexico 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 Texico is in
Texico sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Texico's own centroid rather than borrowed from Curry County.
What Grows in Texico
Every plant below cleared Texico's own zone 7a and its 210-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Texico?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Texico
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Texico. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BOB WHITE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- HOFFMAN AIRCRAFT INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- 02N.37E.15.43341Nitrate · 500 ft
- WHEELER 66Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- STUCKEYSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- TEXICO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- CLARENCE E BELL 1Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- STRIPES 150Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- 02N.37E.15.443Nitrate · 1500 ft
- WESTERN MORTGAGE PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- HELTON OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- TEXICO SCHOOL BUS BARNUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Texico'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 Texico.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Texico
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Texico
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Texico, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Texico — CAFO (13 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (188 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Texico
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 Texico average
Your land is one point inside Texico
Everything above resolves to Texico as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 529 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 city 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 Texico Average
Texico Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Texico
- ●One soil character for all of Texico
- ●Frost dates read at Texico's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Texico's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Texico
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We read public map data around Texico — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Texico
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Texico’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Texico
When does frost risk typically end in Texico?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Texico typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Texico?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Texico typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 210 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Texico?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Texico sees about 210 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 18, about 175 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Texico?
The federal record around Texico is a meaningful one — 268 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (188), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Texico?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Texico's scale — its 7a band and its 210-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Texico'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 Texico’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Texico's own scale — its own ~210-day season between 28°F freezes, the 529 acres it covers and 268 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Texico's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Texico's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 1 and the ~210-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 268 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Texico, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Texico's boundary and the 529 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~210-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Texico's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Texico's 529 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Curry County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Curry 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 Curry County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Texico's 529 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Texico you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 529 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Texico-wide figureread your own land →
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