Anthony, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Anthony, 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 Anthony 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 Anthony — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Anthony — the short answer
Anthony, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 271 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~271
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 8b is Anthony's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Anthony's 271-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Anthony
Each reading below is measured for Anthony itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAnthony runs about 271 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAnthony sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Anthony is in
Anthony sits in the Chihuahuan Deserts — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Anthony's own centroid rather than borrowed from El Paso County.
What Grows in Anthony
Every plant below cleared Anthony's own zone 8b and its 271-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Anthony?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
Documented around Anthony
Survey cells within 31 miles of Anthony checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 621 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Anthony
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Anthony. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JL-49-04-171Nitrate · 1400 ft
- THE PHILLSBURY COMPANYToxics Release Inventory · 2100 ft
- FCI LA TUNAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION LA TUNASuperfund · 2400 ft
- TOWN OF ANTHONYPFAS · 0.7 mi
- JL-49-04-185Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- CIRCLE K STORE 2701641Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #4143Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- WEST TEXAS TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- PDQ DRIVE IN GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- MBOWN-220 - JL-49-04-149Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- SPEEDYS 125Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Anthony'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 Anthony.
Total Sites
374
within ~10 miles of Anthony
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Anthony
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Anthony
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Anthony, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Anthony — CAFO (10 sites) and Nitrate (128 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Anthony
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 Anthony
Everything above resolves to Anthony as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Anthony Average
Anthony Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Anthony
- ●One soil character for all of Anthony
- ●Frost dates read at Anthony's scale: Feb 25 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Anthony's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Anthony
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Anthony, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Anthony averages can't show:
We read public map data around Anthony — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Anthony average
How we know this about Anthony
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 Anthony’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 Anthony
When does frost risk typically end in Anthony?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Anthony typically lands around Feb 25, 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 Mar 18.
When is the first frost in Anthony?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Anthony typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 271 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Anthony?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Anthony sees about 271 frost-free days — roughly Feb 25 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 18 to Nov 9, about 236 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Anthony?
The federal record around Anthony is a meaningful one — 374 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (153), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles 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 Anthony?
From about Oct 24 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Anthony's scale — its 8b band and its 271-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Anthony'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 Anthony’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Anthony's own scale — its own ~271-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,091 acres it covers and 374 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Anthony's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Anthony's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 25 and Nov 23 and the ~271-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 374 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Anthony, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Anthony's boundary and the 4,091 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~271-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Anthony's own centroid, the Chihuahuan DesertsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Anthony 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 Anthony's 4,091 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom El Paso County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom El Paso 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 El Paso County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Anthony's 4,091 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Anthony you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,091 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Anthony-wide figureread your own land →