Tyrone, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Tyrone, 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 Tyrone lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Tyrone — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Tyrone — the short answer
Tyrone, New Mexico: USDA zone 7b, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 214 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~211
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 214 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 Tyrone's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tyrone's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tyrone
Each reading below is measured for Tyrone itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTyrone runs about 211 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
MeasuredTyrone 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 Tyrone is in
Tyrone sits in the Chihuahuan Deserts — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Tyrone'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 Tyrone
Every plant below cleared Tyrone's own zone 7b and its 211-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tyrone?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — 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 Tyrone
Survey cells within 31 miles of Tyrone checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 515 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Tyrone
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tyrone. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FREEPORT-MCMORAN TYRONE INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 100 ft
- FREEPORT-MCMORAN TYRONE MINING LLCToxics Release Inventory · 100 ft
- TYRONE BRANCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- 18S.14W.28.141Nitrate · 0.5 mi
- 18S.14W.27.43333Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- 18S.14W.31.21324 DUPNitrate · 1.5 mi
- 18S.14W.30.32411Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- 18S.14W.30.324Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- 18S.14W.30.34323Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- 18S.14W.30.31211Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- LUCK MINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- 18S.15W.25.442Nitrate · 2.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tyrone'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 Tyrone.
Total Sites
235
within ~10 miles of Tyrone
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tyrone
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tyrone
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tyrone, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Tyrone — Mining (58 sites) and Superfund (4 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Tyrone
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 Tyrone average
Your land is one point inside Tyrone
Everything above resolves to Tyrone as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 214 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 Tyrone Average
Tyrone Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Tyrone
- ●One soil character for all of Tyrone
- ●Frost dates read at Tyrone's scale: Apr 10 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tyrone's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tyrone
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tyrone, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tyrone averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tyrone — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tyrone average
How we know this about Tyrone
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 Tyrone’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 Tyrone
When does frost risk typically end in Tyrone?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tyrone typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Tyrone?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tyrone typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tyrone?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tyrone sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 24, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tyrone?
The federal record around Tyrone runs heavier than most — 235 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (82), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record under a tenth of a mile 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 Tyrone?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tyrone's scale — its 7b band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tyrone'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 Tyrone’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Tyrone's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 214 acres it covers and 235 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tyrone's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tyrone's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Nov 7 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 235 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tyrone, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tyrone's boundary and the 214 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~211-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Tyrone sits in the Chihuahuan Deserts — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Tyrone 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 Tyrone's 214 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 Tyrone's 214 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tyrone you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 214 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory 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 Tyrone-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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