Zia Pueblo, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Zia Pueblo, 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 Zia Pueblo 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 Zia Pueblo — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Zia Pueblo — the short answer
Zia Pueblo, New Mexico: USDA zone 7b, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 17K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~211
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 17K 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 Zia Pueblo's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Zia Pueblo's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Zia Pueblo
Each reading below is measured for Zia Pueblo itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredZia Pueblo 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
MeasuredZia Pueblo 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 Zia Pueblo is in
Zia Pueblo sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Zia Pueblo's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sandoval County.
What Grows in Zia Pueblo
Every plant below cleared Zia Pueblo'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 Zia Pueblo?
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 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — 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 Zia Pueblo
Survey cells within 31 miles of Zia Pueblo checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 426 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Zia Pueblo
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Zia Pueblo. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 15N.02E.22.343Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- 15N.02E.22.423Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- 15N.02E.22.300Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- 15N.02E.22.414Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- 15N.02E.36.314Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- 15N.01E.13.422Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- 15N.02E.06.000Nitrate · 3.6 mi
- GIANT 232Underground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- CORDOVA FEED AND TACKUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- SAN YSIDRO REPEATERUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- CIRCLE K 1319Underground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- ABANDONED STATION SAN YSIDROUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Zia Pueblo'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 Zia Pueblo.
Total Sites
42
within ~10 miles of Zia Pueblo
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Zia Pueblo
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Zia Pueblo
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Zia Pueblo, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 32 sites within ~10 miles of Zia Pueblo. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Zia Pueblo
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 Zia Pueblo average
Your land is one point inside Zia Pueblo
Everything above resolves to Zia Pueblo as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 17K 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 Zia Pueblo Average
Zia Pueblo Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Zia Pueblo
- ●One soil character for all of Zia Pueblo
- ●Frost dates read at Zia Pueblo's scale: Apr 8 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Zia Pueblo's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Zia Pueblo
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Zia Pueblo, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Zia Pueblo averages can't show:
We read public map data around Zia Pueblo — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Zia Pueblo average
How we know this about Zia Pueblo
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 Zia Pueblo’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 Zia Pueblo
When does frost risk typically end in Zia Pueblo?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Zia Pueblo typically lands around Apr 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Zia Pueblo?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Zia Pueblo typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Zia Pueblo?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Zia Pueblo sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 22, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Zia Pueblo?
The federal record around Zia Pueblo is light — 42 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (32), the nearest Nitrate record about 1.2 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Zia Pueblo?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Zia Pueblo's scale — its 7b band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Zia Pueblo'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 Zia Pueblo’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Zia Pueblo's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 17,299 acres it covers and 42 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Zia Pueblo's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Zia Pueblo's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Nov 5 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 42 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Zia Pueblo, the closest Nitrate record about 1.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Zia Pueblo's boundary and the 17,299 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~211-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Zia Pueblo's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Zia Pueblo 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 Zia Pueblo's 17,299 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sandoval County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sandoval 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 Sandoval County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Zia Pueblo's 17,299 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Zia Pueblo you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 17,299 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 1.2 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 Zia Pueblo-wide figureread your own land →