Abernathy, Texas, 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.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Abernathy, 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 Abernathy lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Abernathy — the short answer
Abernathy, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 228 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~228
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 7b is Abernathy's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Abernathy's 228-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Abernathy
Each reading below is measured for Abernathy itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAbernathy runs about 228 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
MeasuredAbernathy 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 Abernathy is in
Abernathy sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Abernathy's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lubbock County.
What Grows in Abernathy
Every plant below cleared Abernathy's own zone 7b and its 228-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Abernathy?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — 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 Abernathy
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Abernathy. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ABERNATHY ISDUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- INCE OIL 14Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- HURST FARM SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- ALLSUPS 73Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- ABERNATHY OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- WOLF IRRIGATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CITY OF ABERNATHYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- DONS EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- ABS ONE STOP SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- HIGGINBOTHAM PLBGUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SHA PRA FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- PEACOCK SHAMROCKUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Abernathy'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 Abernathy.
Total Sites
37
within ~10 miles of Abernathy
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Abernathy
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Abernathy
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Abernathy, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Abernathy — CAFO (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (24 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 Abernathy
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 Abernathy average
Your land is one point inside Abernathy
Everything above resolves to Abernathy 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 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 Abernathy Average
Abernathy Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Abernathy
- ●One soil character for all of Abernathy
- ●Frost dates read at Abernathy's scale: Mar 28 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Abernathy's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Abernathy
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Abernathy, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Abernathy averages can't show:
We read public map data around Abernathy — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Abernathy average
How we know this about Abernathy
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 Abernathy’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 Abernathy
When does frost risk typically end in Abernathy?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Abernathy typically lands around Mar 28, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Abernathy?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Abernathy typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 228 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Abernathy?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Abernathy sees about 228 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Oct 28, about 193 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Abernathy?
The federal record around Abernathy is light — 37 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (24), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Abernathy?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Abernathy's scale — its 7b band and its 228-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Abernathy'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 Abernathy’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Abernathy's own scale — its own ~228-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,049 acres it covers and 37 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Abernathy's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Abernathy's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 28 and Nov 11 and the ~228-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 37 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Abernathy, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Abernathy's boundary and the 2,049 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~228-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Abernathy's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Abernathy's 2,049 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lubbock County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lubbock County
- The growing challenges every Texas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Texas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Lubbock County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Abernathy's 2,049 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Abernathy you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,049 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Abernathy-wide figureread your own land →