Alanreed, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, 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 Alanreed, 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 Alanreed lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Alanreed — the short answer
Alanreed, Texas: USDA zone 7a, about 224 days between hard freezes, across 294 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~224
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 294 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 Alanreed's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Alanreed's 224-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Alanreed
Each reading below is measured for Alanreed itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAlanreed runs about 224 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
MeasuredAlanreed 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 Alanreed is in
Alanreed sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Alanreed's own centroid rather than borrowed from Gray County.
What Grows in Alanreed
Every plant below cleared Alanreed's own zone 7a and its 224-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Alanreed?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — 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 Alanreed
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Alanreed. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GARRISONS COUNTRY CORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- FINA 510Underground Storage Tanks · 7.3 mi
- BENS SELF SERVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.3 mi
- GUYTON MOTORUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.5 mi
- THE FILLIN STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.5 mi
- FOSHEE TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.5 mi
- RICHARDSON TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.6 mi
- CANTRELL OIL & GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.7 mi
- CITY OF MCLEANUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.7 mi
- TAYLOR FOOD MART 2016Underground Storage Tanks · 7.7 mi
- MCLEAN ISDUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- MCLEAN FARMCAFO · 9.0 mi
Measured from Alanreed'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 Alanreed.
Total Sites
12
within ~10 miles of Alanreed
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 concentrated animal feeding operation
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Alanreed
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
Check your specific parcel in Alanreed
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 Alanreed
Everything above resolves to Alanreed as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 294 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 Alanreed Average
Alanreed Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Alanreed
- ●One soil character for all of Alanreed
- ●Frost dates read at Alanreed's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Alanreed's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Alanreed
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Alanreed, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Alanreed — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Alanreed average
How we know this about Alanreed
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 Alanreed’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 Alanreed
When does frost risk typically end in Alanreed?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Alanreed typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Alanreed?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Alanreed typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 224 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Alanreed?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Alanreed sees about 224 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 26, about 189 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Alanreed?
The federal record around Alanreed is light — 12 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (11), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 7.2 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 Alanreed?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Alanreed's scale — its 7a band and its 224-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Alanreed'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 Alanreed’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Alanreed's own scale — its own ~224-day season between 28°F freezes, the 294 acres it covers and 12 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Alanreed's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Alanreed's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 9 and the ~224-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 12 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Alanreed, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 7.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Alanreed's boundary and the 294 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~224-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Alanreed's own centroid, the Southwestern TablelandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Alanreed's 294 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gray County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gray 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 Gray County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Alanreed's 294 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Alanreed you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 294 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 7.2 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 Alanreed-wide figureread your own land →
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